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A giant animal carcass is leaving locals and scientists alike guessing since the remains of the creature have washed up on a shore in New Zealand.
A video of the carcass, dubbed “Strange Pukehina sea creature” has been posted on YouTube and relayed by Grind TV, while officials are still unable to solve t... |
8 May 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Several volunteers and wildlife experts are now doing their best to save the life of a whale that has beached on Castle Beach, Falmouth.
Despite the fact that no official information concerning this whale has thus far been shared with the public, it appears that the marine mammal is a pilot whale.
SkyNews says th... |
15 April 2013
10:15 GMT |
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The picture above was taken by 60-year-old photographer Doug Perrine in Hawaii, in the waters just off the coast of Kona.
Sources say that the cetacean featured in it is referred to by marine biologists and wildlife researchers as a false killer whale. This it because it strikingly resembles the latter, at least un... |
21 March 2013
17:21 GMT |
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Local authorities and ordinary folks in Breezy Point, Queens were recently left with no choice except work around the clock in order to rescue a fin whale which beached in this part of the US this past Wednesday morning. Apparently, the marine mammal was first spotted by a 66-year-old resident, who first mistook th... |
27 December 2012
03:33 GMT |
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A study led by scientists at Duke University and published in the November 27 issue of the journal Current Biology explains the blue whale pirouette as a hunting technique which allows them to trap the prey from underneath. “This behavior probably improves the whales' chances to engulf the most krill poss... |
28 November 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Dan Fisher, a British maritime engineer spotted a very rare white humpback whale, while navigating along the Norwegian coast.
Luckily for us, Dan Fisher hasn't missed the opportunity to take some snapshots of the extraordinary, real-life Moby Dick.
Mr. Fisher was not an uninitiated person into the water's... |
20 November 2012
10:26 GMT |
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The whale was discovered on Capricorn Beach, in the capital city of Cape Town, this Sunday. Its carcass reportedly measured 30 meters, or 98 feet. Movers required an industrial digger to remove the remains of the gigantic animal to a nearby landfill. The only question left lingering in everyone's minds is how a... |
10 October 2012
03:13 GMT |
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Lolita, an orca living at the Miami Seaquarium, is now the main focus of a lawsuit intended to rescue it from its present days living conditions.
Apparently, Lolita is currently living in an enclosure which does not abide by the standards listed under the Animal Welfare Act, meaning that its tank is not big enough ... |
24 August 2012
11:35 GMT |
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In October last year, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took SeaWorld to court on behalf of five killer whales, asking for their immediate release into the wild on the basis of slavery. A judge has tossed the claim out.
PETA wanted five whales released because keeping them in captivity at SeaWorld was... |
9 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Almost 100 beluga beluga whales from the Bering Sea are at great risk, according to Russian agencies. Experts warn that these endangered creatures are currently trapped among large floating banks of ice.
Representatives from Russia's nature protection organization state that if rescuers don't act fast, th... |
16 December 2011
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When spending too much time in the sun, without any protection, people get sunburns, and according to scientists, this does not happen to humans only.Whales seem to be affected by the sun rays just as much as humans are, and the skin damage caused by the ultraviolet radiations is as severe as acute sunburns in people... |
11 November 2010
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The polar bear is indeed a more iconic animal than the narwhal and, on top of that, despite being classified as marine, we can see it mostly on land. This may explain why people have been focusing more on it than on other Arctic animals, when warning about the danger of extinction caused by global warming. With all t... |
13 May 2008
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Toothed whales represent the diving champions of all air-breathing animals. Sperm whales dive at depths of over 1,200 m (3,600 ft) for more than an hour, while Cuvier's beaked whale (a type of toothed whale) holds the record for diving amongst any sea mammal - 1,900 m (6,330 ft), that translate into 190 atmosphe... |
9 May 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Tongue is an organ specific to the vertebrates. And they can do a lot of things with their tongues...1. A blue whale weighing 60-70 tons (and the largest blue whales can double this weight) has a 3 tons tongue. It is by far the largest tongue in the animal world. And the whale tongue is not large because of the overa... |
12 April 2008
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Real cases of people saved from drowning by dolphins are known from ancient Greek and Roman stories to the legends of the Polynesians and Maori of the New Zealand. There were cases of dolphins which defended shipwrecked people swimming in the water from shark attacks, till rescue ships appeared. But this behavior is ... |
13 March 2008
07:14 GMT |
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The killer whale, or orca, is one of those animals with an unmistakable color pattern that cannot fool even an uninitiated person. But now, researchers have taken pictures of a white killer whale near the Aleutian Islands (western Alaska). The beast of the myths turned into reality."I had heard about this whale, but ... |
8 March 2008
05:46 GMT |
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1. The killer whale or orca is, together with the Great White Shark, the top predator of the oceans. The name of "whale" is deceptive, as this cetacean is not even a toothed whale, but a dolphin. That's right, the largest of all: males can be up to 8 m (26 ft) long and weigh up to 8 tonnes. The mouth is adorned ... |
25 February 2008
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Have you ever wondered how whales sleep? Actually, just like us, but in short naps. This was showed by a new research led by Dr. Patrick Miller of the University of St. Andrews, who captured on video drifting behavior in sperm whales. Sperm whales in the wild turn off completely conscious activity for short 'cat... |
22 February 2008
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Beaked whales get their name from the shape of their snouts and their large size, but these cetaceans are close-related to dolphins. This family of toothed cetaceans is amongst the least known mammalian families. They measure between 3,4 to 12 m (11 to 40 ft) length and weigh 1 to 15 tones. They make deep dives and f... |
11 February 2008
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The blue whale can be up to 33 m (100 ft) in length and weigh 181 tons, yet its recently described ancestor was just a large cat sized deerlike hoofed mammal. The semiaquatic creature, called Indohyus, inhabited southern Asia some 48 million years ago, and has been described in a research published in the journal "Na... |
20 December 2007
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Whales may be the largest animals ever, but, despite this, the pharynx of the baleen whales (true whales) is so narrow that they cannot swallow anything larger than a herring. Still, their enormous mouths suggest they have a huge gulp. And in some species, the so-called rorquals, that include humpback whales and blue... |
28 November 2007
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Some sea creatures can sometimes go upstream on large rivers, like for example the sharks. The bull sharks, a dangerous species for all humans, does it in many tropical areas. But this took everyone by surprise: an 18-foot (6 m) long and 12 tons heavy minke whale stranded on a sandbar in the Amazon jungle about 1,000... |
19 November 2007
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1.Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) appeared 50 million years ago (the oldest known whale being Pakicetus), having (as revealed by DNA) a common origin with …the hippopotamus (!). 40 million years ago whales were divided into baleen whales and toothed whales. The oldest known baleen whale is Mamalodon (that lived 25 mi... |
17 October 2007
16:26 GMT |
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The Australian authorities which are trying to stop Japan from whaling in the Antarctic turned to YouTube in a desperate move to convince the world that such a move might kill several species of these creatures. Australia's Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull published a clip on YouTube to convince the Japanes... |
10 October 2007
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If we pay huge prices for perfumes coming from the anal glands of the musk deer and civet cat and coffee coming from the dung of civet cat, why should we be surprised by the fact that one the most expensive perfumes is actually vomit?Ambergris comes from the intestines of the sperm whales. It is actually a biliary se... |
6 October 2007
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A dead zebra in the African savanna means a fiesta for the vultures around. But if we're talking about dead whales, this fiesta can last for decades. And there are specialized marine communities which are adapted for this purpose. This is called whale fall and the first recognized one was in 1989 in southern Ca... |
21 September 2007
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For a long time now, humans have been fascinated by the spectacular fights between the huge sperm whales and giant squids, that triggered the myth of the kraken, the island big sea monster. But how do the whales manage to detect the squids in the complete darkness of the deep ocean? It's all in their ultrasound ... |
11 September 2007
07:23 GMT |
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All vertebrates sleep, from fish to mammals. And even some invertebrates, like the insects. During sleep, the body enters in a predominantly anabolic phase, when it develops, grows, heals and builds muscle; the immune system is at its peak (that's why, when we're ill, we wake up without the cold). The lack ... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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Japan is considered one of the nations with the highest technology and assumes one of the highest life standards. That's why it's a shame that Japan is still defying the international ban of commercial whaling, which could lead to the extinction of 5 out of 13 great whale species. The abundance of whale mea... |
31 July 2007
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During the Ice Age these islands could have formed a bridge from Asia to America and this is how the first Americans entered North America about 15,000 years ago. But modern native inhabitants, the Aleutians, are not related to those early Americans: they come more recently from Asia and are related to the Eskimals. ... |
30 July 2007
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It is true that a whale's tongue can be 3 tons heavy but that of a humpback whale wrecked Wednesday on the steep, rocky shores of Admiralty Island (south of Juneau, southeast Alaska) was really unusual: its swollen tongue was the size of a small car!It is believed that a collision with a ship forced air into the... |
19 July 2007
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This is a strange coincidence: the oldest remains of a right whale have been found in the only country still hunting whales against the international law. A museum in Nagano prefecture (180 km (110 mi) northwest of Tokyo) possesses the most ancient right whale fossils, at least 5 million years old. "Researchers worki... |
5 July 2007
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Squids have excellent eyesight, a keen sense of smell, and the ability to squirt jets of dark ink that mask their escape. But these skills provide little protection against toothed whales, like the sperm whale, which hunt them ruthlessly and easily. "The numbers of squid that are eaten by sperm whales far exceed thos... |
28 June 2007
17:31 GMT |
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Scientists imagined that giant whales can live up to 80 years. This has proven wrong: a 50-ton bowhead whale recently captured off the Alaskan coast in May had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck revealing survival to a similar hunt over a century ago.Under the whale's blubber a 3½-inch (9 cm) arrow-shaped pr... |
13 June 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Stopping whale meat consume is a bitter fight led against the Japanese mentality. But in some cases, unwittingly whales have a method of their own. 10 % of the gray whales hunted by Russian aboriginals from Chukotka are inedible due to the rancid stench of their meat and this is increasing. Still, researchers cannot ... |
8 June 2007
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If you're from Europe or North America, it would be simply unthinkable for you to eat whale meat. But in Japan, it is just another usual custom. Whale meat may not be found everywhere - as tuna or tofu are - but in every city you may find at least one restaurant which serves it. It is really interesting the abu... |
28 May 2007
14:36 GMT |
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Biologists got alarmed when the killer whales (orcas) of Washington State's Puget Sound started disappearing. Using high technology supersensitive microphones, Ken Balcomb has been eavesdropping on the region's resident killer whales. Unlike migratory orcas, these ones spend their whole lives among sounds.... |
8 May 2007
04:59 GMT |
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Whales could feel insulted when we call an overweight person "whale", because, unlike people, these mammals move a lot.In fact, the longest movement of any mammal, as a recent research detected, belongs to humpback whales which migrate over 5,100 miles (8,300 km) from their feeding areas off Antarctica to the mating ... |
11 April 2007
07:21 GMT |
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Italian archaeologists have dug the fossil skeleton of a 4 million-year-old whale in the Tuscan countryside, a found that comes to shed a light on reconstructing the image of the prehistoric sea that once covered the peninsula. The 33-foot (10-meter) fossil, dated to the Pliocene epoch, was discovered in almost perfe... |
4 April 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) emerged 50 million years ago. Believe it or not, they have a common origin with …the hippopotamus (!), not with the land predators. Currently, there are 15 species of baleen whales and 74 toothed whales (out of which 42 are dolphins). The largest whale (and animal that has ever existed... |
16 March 2007
10:57 GMT |
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The epic fights between sperm whales and giant squids witnessed by sailors fired the imagination of many biologists and nature lovers, with their mysterious cover. And this especially because sperm whales are the largest predator in the world, 18 m (59 ft) long and 50 tons weight, with a huge appetite for squids, y... |
12 March 2007
11:05 GMT |
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