This story was updated on Friday, June 21 at 10:29 a.m.
Marine mammal care specialists from the Georgia Aquarium were part of a team that rescued two beluga whales from Ukraine this week and safely delivered them to an aquarium in Spain.
It’s being called “likely the most complex marine mammal rescue ever undertaken.”
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