More than 190 students from 13 local secondary schools will take part in a year-long programme to gain hands-on experience in ...
The post Deep-Sea Ghost: How Scientists Finally Caught the Whale No One Had Ever Seen appeared first on A-Z Animals. Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the ...
More than 60 miles off the coast of Baja, California, the crew of the Pacific Storm hauled an underwater microphone behind their boat while scanning the horizon with binoculars for signs of life. For ...
The whales are considered "data deficient" because they're so elusive New England Aquarium/Facebook A rare species of whale was sighted off the coast of Cape Cod this month Three True's beaked whales ...
A tracking tag is attached to the fin of a Cuvier’s beaked whale. The tag helped scientists learn how the whale swims. (Handout) If there were a gold medal for marine mammal diving, it undoubtedly ...
Scientists have finally photographed a whale known only from sounds and remains, linking a mysterious deep-sea signal to a living species and revealing unexpected habitats beneath Pacific waters.
A “rare” True’s beaked whale recently washed ashore in Ireland in what experts say is part of a cluster of strandings. Photo from Milomc123, UnSplash Two rare deep-sea whales recently washed up on ...
Guide to the beaked whales. Arnoux's beaked whale ; Baird's beaked whale ; Northern bottlenose whale ; Southern bottlenose whale ; Longman's beaked whale ; Sowerby's beaked whale ; Andrews' beaked ...
One winter morning about two years ago, marine mammal scientist Anton van Helden was driving hell-for-leather up to the far north of New Zealand. A thirteen-and-a-half hour haul would take him to the ...
For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries. Although identified in 1958, our basic understanding of this rare whale was ...
Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the biopsy sample. For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s ...