A whale-watching tour company in Northern California captured rare footage of a dolphin super pod — featuring about 2,000 dolphins breaching off of the coast of Monterey. According to the Associated Press, Monterey Bay Whale Watch boat captain and videographer Evan Brodsky was sailing near Monterey Bay, about 100 miles away from San Francisco, on […]
The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Portland Bait and Tackle There’s no doubt about it: killer whales (Orcinus orca) are formidable predators. They feed on a diverse range of prey, from marine mammals like seals and whales to fish and even reptiles. However, they are also known to specialize […]
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) engaging in possible courtship behaviors at Ningaloo Reef. (A) Calcified clasper of the male shark. (B) An ~8.5 m male whale shark following closely behind a ~7 m female whale shark. (C) The female shark (left) rapidly pivoting after being bitten on the caudal fin by the male (right). (D) The […]
A killer whale, which captured the world’s attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah, has lost another calf and is again pushing the body, according to the Center for Whale Research. Tahlequah has this […]
A male humpback whale crossed at least three oceans in search of sex, a new study shows. The whale’s journey is the longest great-circle distance between two sightings ever recorded for the species (Megaptera novaeangliae), scientists said. Great-circle distance refers to the shortest distance between two points on Earth as measured on the planet’s spherical […]
At the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia Sunday, Brendan Fraser, who won an Oscar for his work in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” revealed the real reason why the director chose him for the role. Fraser said Aronofsky was looking for “an actor who hadn’t been seen in a while” to play Charlie, the […]
At 111 feet wide, 104 feet long, 18 feet high, and 600 feet around this stunning organism in the southwest Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest known coral that was discovered by accident. It is a conglomerate of individual creatures called coral polyps that have grown over 300 years. Instead of a coral reef like […]
When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale bones are still leaking oil, despite the cetacean being dead for over two decades. Named King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO for short–this rare blue […]
