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Image: Sea Shepherd In a disturbing repeat of last year, Japanese whalers returned to port Friday with the carcasses of 333 minke whales on board. Since 1986, a global moratorium has banned the hunting of whales, but Japan claims the killings are being done for “scientific research.” Advertisement This is nothing new—Japan has been exploiting […]
Published time: 15 Mar, 2017 17:44Edited time: 15 Mar, 2017 17:50 A new study has revealed that spiders eat an estimated twice as much as humans and even devour more than whales. A team of researchers from Switzerland, Sweden and Germany used data from 65 previous studies to come to the conclusion that spiders rank […]
The growing whale army (Image: Findlay et al) Maybe you thought the apocalypse would come from a nuclear war or climate change or revolting sentient robots or something. But after reading about a strange new humpback whale behavior, you might want to add a cetacean coup to your list. Happy Friday. Advertisement Researchers observed 22 […]
Video taken from a bird’s eye view has captured the jaw-dropping moment a paddle boarder is almost knocked off their board by an enormous whale. The footage showed a pod of humpbacks rising out of the depths of the ocean. Floating on the surface was a paddle boarder sitting in their board, which paled in […]
Most of the 415 whales that washed up on a narrow sand spit in Golden Bay, New Zealand died by Thursday night, while scores of volunteers armed with blankets struggled to keep the surviving animals wet to refloat them during a life-saving tide. The mammals were scattered along the beach in Farewell Spit on the […]
