. ♪ >>> a real hair puller.s like a real big suspense story with no ending. >> it was supposed to be a big scientist breakthrough. what we're talking about is scientists trying to track the journey of a gray whale, a species nearly extent. robert joins us life to tell us about how the efforts pretty much became their own journey is frustration. >> reporter: well, frank, we're on the monterey -- a western gray whale named flex on an incredible journey. scientists have learned a lot already but aren't sure if they'll get a chance to learn anymore. there are two populations of gray whales. the eastern pacific gray whale that number in the thousands and the western gray whales such as flex hunted almost to extinction. when they managed to put a satellite tracking device on flex researchers began watching his journey. >> scientifically, it's kind of a milestone in terms of learning more about the muchlts. >> reporter: he did not disappoint. he's continuously surprised scientists by how far he's traveled more than 5,0

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