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10 Amazing Facts About Ocean Animals
With over 72% of the Earth’s surface covered by salt water, the Earth’s oceans are home to 230,000 known species. And that’s with only 5% of the Earth’s oceans considered explored! In celebration of...
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How Whales Become Entangled
This illustration shows how fishing lines attached to traps and buoys on the ocean floor present a potentially deadly hazard to North Atlantic right whales. This illustration shows how fishing lines...
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Menopausal Moms: A Mammal Mystery
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have something in common with humans: early menopause Marine Wildlife blog salutes ocean-going mothers everywhere. Especially a 60 year-old albatross named Wisdom. She...
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Counting whales from space
A new method for detecting whales using satellite imagery that’s more reliable and efficient than counting whales from ships or shore. Click here to view the embedded video. A team of scientists from...
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There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old Drawing of a Bowhead Whale In Alaska’s North Slope, the population of bowhead whales seems to be recovering. But...
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Whale graveyard reveals most ancient mass strandings
The skeleton shapes are fossils, some of at least 40 dead whales washed ashore en masse between 6 and 9 million years ago on a beach that is now slightly inland from Nnorthern Chile’s coastline. No,...
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The Narwhals’ Unicorn-Like Tusk Can Sense Changes in Its Environment
Narwhals are sometimes referred to as the unicorns of the sea because of the long, pointed horns that extend from their heads. The nerve-filled appendage helps the animals’ sense temperature and...
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