article_snippet.sent: (CNN)A North Pacific gray whale has earned a spot in the record books after completing the longest migration of a mammal ever recorded.
article_snippet.sent: The whale, named Varvara, swam nearly 14,000 miles (22,500 kilometers), according to a release from Oregon State University, whose scientists helped conduct the whale-tracking study.
article_snippet.sent: It said The previous record was set by a humpback whale that swam a mere 10,190-mile round trip between the "warm breeding waters near the equator and the colder food-rich waters of the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
article_snippet.sent: Records are nice, but Bruce Mate, the lead author of the whale-tracking study, thinks the long trip might say more about the whale than just its ability to swim.
highlights_snippet.sent: The whale, Varvara, swam a round trip from Russia to Mexico, nearly 14,000 miles .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The previous record was set by a humpback whale that migrated more than 10,000 miles .