Marine mammals appear to communicate through them The mesmerising bubble rings created by humpback whales may hold the answer to discovering alien lifeforms, scientists believe. In a recent Marine Mammal Science journal, Dr. Fred Sharpe and Dr. Laurance Doyle revealed their findings after a variety of peaceful oceanic giants were documented producing bubble rings while […]
8 months ago
‘Often when one whale gets into difficulty and strands, the rest follow’ An entire pod of 55 whales has died after a mass stranding on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The pod had become stranded after they washed onto Traigh Mhor beach at North Tolsta on the Isle of Lewis at about 07:00 on […]
2 years ago
‘They were both rolling on the ground together and having a great time’ It turns out humpback whales like to take a little time out for self-care. Scientists researching the marine mammals off of Australia’s God Coast found they were drawn to a sandy, shallow area of the ocean floor where they appeared to be […]
3 years ago
All this time we’ve been searching for a penis in the water The reason we’ve struggled to track the Loch Ness monster down for so long is because the creature is actually a whale’s penis, one professor has argued. Michael Sweet, professor in Molecular Ecology at the University of Derby, believes that the myth about […]
4 years ago
Terrible news At least 31 pilot whales are thought to have died after washing up on a notorious New Zealand beach where deaths of the whales and similar species are said to occur regularly. As confirmed by NZ’s Department of Conservation, a pod of whales was spotted on Thursday in what was just the latest […]
4 years ago
The animals were meant to be marked and released into the wild as part of a research programme Dozens of dolphins have been slaughtered in the Faroe Islands less than two weeks after almost 1,500 were killed in an annual cull. The pilot whales were initially intended to be marked and released as part of […]
4 years ago