Humpback, minke and some baleen whales engage in trap feeding otherwise known as tread-water feeding. Fables recorded in ancient tales of sea monsters are likely to be based upon this feeding technique. More than 2,200 years ago, Greek scholars described how an enormous predator, so …
There is an extraordinary story in The Times today of a notorious pair of killer whales (orcas) which killed 17 sharks in one day. You might know that orcas have a taste for liver. They only ate the livers of the 17 sharks. Just gaping …
Humpback whales have changed their behaviour when looking for a mate with which to start a family. Back in the day when the humpback whale had been decimated to less than 500 in the 1960s off the east coast of Australia, they were far more …
A study concluded that the oceans pose a greater risk to the health of the world’s largest creatures than was previously thought as a single blue whale may swallow as much as 10 million pieces of plastic in a day. These 150 tonne animals consume …
This is an impressive view of an army of Portuguese trying to push a beached sperm whale near Lisbon Portugal back into deep water. The suggestion is that the whale’s inability to make deep dives caused by barotrauma (exploded ear drums) might have caused this …
