By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – SeaWorld said on Thursday it will stop breeding killer whales in captivity, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists, but the orcas already at its three parks will continue performing as they live out their remaining years. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc's decision came after it pledged in […]
The whales were washed up on the Lincolnshire coast this morning after another sperm whale was found caught on rocks off the coast in Norfolk.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clean-up has begun on the island of Wangerooge, off the northern coast of Germany, after two sperm whales were stranded on its beaches earlier this week.
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Poignant footage captures the mammals gathering in a tiny circle, clinging together to protect themselves from injury as the men drive the animals towards the netted shoreline in the cove.
two very rare False Killer Whales were caught on camera recently acting very playful and even appearing to smile for the camera while swimming off Hawaii.
Patrick Dykstra, 35, from Denver, recorded the amazing scenes off the coast of Sri Lanka and also managed to snap breathtaking underwater shots of the majestic creatures.
Experts believe whales are falling asleep in the water as they migrate during the winter and are ‘sleep swimming’ straight into treacherous shark nets.
It would not be the first time this sort of sad sight warned of an impending earthquake or tsunami, for that matter. Animals seem to have an innate and unexplained ability to sense subtle changes in something in the environment around them that triggers them to go into high alert mode when a natural and […]
“I was excited during the course of this project that we discovered changes in bowhead genes related to cell cycle, DNA repair, cancer, and aging that suggest alterations that may be biologically-relevant,” senior author João Pedro de Magalhães told …