Japan continues whaling, despite international ban
Tokyo announced a new round of culls in the Southern Ocean despite the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banning them from doing ...
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Who’s got the most efficient muscle engine : the tuna or the grey whale?
Photo: Wikimedia Commons The humongous grey whale and the skipjack tuna, though of contradicting sizes, both ...
UN court rules against Japan whaling
In what may be a historic decision, the UN's top court has ordered Japan to stop its annual whale hunt ...
World’s rarest whale, thought to be extinct, beached on New Zealand
(c) Current Biology The first recollection of the spade-toothed whale came in 1872, but no actual ...
New vital feeding sensory organ discovered in Rorqual whales
A group of researchers at University of British Columbia and the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new sensory organ in rorqual whales, ...
Huge whale cemetery discovered in Chilean desert
Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of numerous whale fossils, dating back from seven million years ago, in Northern Chile. On ...
Whales suffer from sun burns too
You know those days when you go to the beach, and it's just too hot outside, so you have to ...