By 1976 some 270 orcas were captured — many multiple times — in the Salish Sea, the transboundary waters between the U.S. and Canada, according to historian Jason Colby at the University of Victoria. At least 12 of those orcas died during capture, and m...
The Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party have pledged to designate 10 percent of the country’s seas as Highly Protected Marine Areas, offering depleted ecosystems a chance to bounce back. It's a complicated task.
To return to penguins, the icy little birds who are far from frigid, we see non-heteronormative, non-monogamous sexuality as a routine part of their behaviour. King penguins captured from the Antarctic in 1913 for the Edinburgh Zoo created a stir once keepers f igured out how to tell the...
we heard whales sing. on a trip to bermuda, the biologists roger and katy payne met a us naval engineer named frank watlington, who gave them recordings he’d made of strange melodies captured deep underwater. for centuries, sailors had recounted tales of eerie songs that emanated from ...
But he didn't know what year it was cause it was January of 13. He still thought it was 2012. And then he told me how he got captured and that was just like, oh my god. Like it's the type of story whenever I do is a speaking engagement and people ask how he was taken. ...
The oldest killer whale in the wild was known as “granny” that lived off Washington state and British Columbia. The age of “Granny” is hotly contested, but some reports have her living from 1911 to 2016, which would make her 105 years old. Granny was captured in 1967 with the aim ...
Orcas and other toothed whales are attacking Great Whites in record numbers, marking the latest chapter in a 60-million-year battle between Sharks and Whales. This rivalry began with The Leviathan, a prehistoric whale that once went tooth to tooth with the greatest predator to ever swim the oc...
In approximately nine months when the sensors fell off, the elephant and Weddell seals collected more summer and wintertime ocean data in this area of the Amundsen Sea than researchers had ever had before. The seals captured data over 11,307 dives, of which 6,704 provided usef...
Self-proclaimed “armchair aeroscience geek” Liem Bahnerman captured the amazing footage after launching a high-altitude balloon festooned with three still cameras and two action cams shooting video. Continue Reading » Aerial Photography How ToDrone NewsNewsPhotographer Profiles Colin Smith’s 10 ...
I was pulling into the gated driveway of theMarlborough Lodge— a Victorian estate on the wooded outskirts of Blenheim. Here, owner Angela Dillon has faithfully captured the aesthetic appeal of a 19th-century convent while infusing its interior with every manner of modern luxury — full marble ...