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In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...
Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when ...
A massive killer whale swam deep into Yaquina Bay, hunting alone and stunning onlookers. Here's what we know about T049C — and why he's so well known.
Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are the largest fish in the world. They can trace their ancestry to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, 245–65 million years ago, and are members of the ...
Feeding behavior and marine changes Stable isotope analysis revealed that ancient whales often fed differently than whales today. Sperm whales showed high nitrogen values, indicating a diet rich in ...
Stable isotope measurements (δ13C and δ15N) on the bones indicate surprisingly close modern whale diets in contrast to the Ice Age environment. Gray whales, for example, were already showing benthic ...
Alexandre Lefebvre A spear point made of gray whale bone that is roughly 18,000 years old. Over the decades, dozens of prehistoric bone tools have been collected from caves across France and Spain.
Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...
The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year People view a dead gray whale that washed up on the shoreline of the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda ...