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World News / YouTube A blue whale washed up dead in Kamakura City, Japan, on Sunday. The 34-foot mammal is thought to be less than a year old. The cause of death is currently unknown. It is reportedly the first time a blue whale has ever been sighted on Japanese shores. Blue whales are an […]
Whale-watching is not without its perils, as tourists aboard an Australian sightseeing ship discovered when they were drenched by an enormous leaping leviathan that came incredibly close to crushing their boat. Cruising for marine animals off the coast of Port Macquarie, the tourists certainly got their money’s worth when a massive humpback whale rose from […]
A viral video has emerged of an encounter between a gigantic whale and an unsuspecting man in a kayak. Taken in English Bay in Vancouver, Canada, the scary footage shows the man getting up close and personal with nature. It begins with a man, wearing a red and black wet suit and a baseball cap, […]
The US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has deemed deaths of minke whales along the east coast last year an ‘Unusual Mortality Event’ (UME). UME, the designation for an occurrence involving a significant die-off of any marine mammal population has spurred a federal probe, NOAA Fisheries announced Wednesday in a teleconference with reporters. The investigation will […]
Killer whales have for the first time been recorded apparently imitating human speech. Audio released in a new study captured an orca mimicking words such as “hello” and “bye bye.” A new study, published Wednesday in the journal ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society B’ and led by the Complutense University of Madrid, found orcas have […]
Published time: 8 Jan, 2018 15:10 A rare 12-meter-long (39ft) fin whale has been found beached at Egypt’s Alexandria on Sunday. It washed up on Roshdy beach, Al Ahram reports. The dead whale is believed to have come all the way from the Atlantic and drifted to Egypt via the Strait of Gibraltar following a […]
While many of us are fascinated by images and videos of whales, it is rare we get a close up view of the magnificent creatures. However, a viral video from Imgur has shown us just that as a whale makes a shocking appearance from the ocean. In the video, the user is recording a glittering […]
You may not have heard of Yiying Lu, but chances are you’ve seen her work for some of tech’s most popular companies. She’s the artist behind one of the most iconic images from the beginning of Web 2.0, the Fail Whale, which Twitter adopted to replace the stale 404 page when the service went down […]
Published time: 15 Nov, 2017 23:42 The body of a 30-ton humpback whale washed up on Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema beach on Wednesday, causing a large crowd of sunbathers to gather and take pictures of the tragic creature. Weighing around 30 tons, the whale was discovered on a stretch of sand between Arpoador peninsula and […]
Screenshot NSWDPI Astonishing footage has emerged of dozens of sharks and a whale feeding on baitfish just beyond the surf break in the tourism region of Forster/Tuncurry on the New South Wales mid north coast. White, bull and bronze whaler sharks are among the predators chasing the fish, while a Bryde’s whale, a baleen feeder, […]
