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Extremely rare white whale spotted for the first time in Thailand's Phuket

The extraordinary sighting occurred on the first day of the new year when passengers aboard the boat 'Happy Ours' witnessed the once-in-a-lifetime glimpse of an all-white Omura's Whale swimming alongside another whale, sources reported. The whale was spotted approximately 5.6 miles south of Coral Island. According to sources, the first living Omura's whale was seen in the wild in 2015, but this is the first known sighting of what could be an albino of the species off Thailand.