The body of the giant blue whale was found by researchers from Oregon State University in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California.
For professional photographer Joel Coleman, the sight of a southern right whale frolicking on Freshwater Beach was too much to bear from dry land.
Description In eighteen hundred and forty-six, On March the eighteenth day; We hoisted our colours to the top of the mast, And for Greenland sailed away, brave boys, And for Greenland sailed away. And when we reached that fine foreign shore, Our goodly ship to moor; We wished ourselves back home again, With the girls upon the shore, brave boys, With the girls upon the shore. The lookout in the cross-tree stood, A spy glass in his eye (in his eye) Overhaul, overhaul, let your big boats fall, And you'll put your boats to sea, brave boys, And you'll put your boats to sea. The captain stood on the quarterdeck, The ice was in his eyes (in his eyes) There's a whale, there's a whale, and a whalefish, he cried, And she blows at every span, brave boys, And she blows at every span. The harpoon struck and the line played out, In a single flurry of his tail (of his tail) He capsized our boat and we lost five men, And we did not catch that whale, brave boys, And we did not catch that whale. The losing of those five jolly men, It grieved our captain sore (he was poisoned) But the losing of that fine sperm whale, Now it grieved him ten times more, brave boys, Now it grieved him ten times more. Oh, Greenland is a barren land, A land that bears no green; Well, there's ice and there's snow, and the whale fishes blow, And an ale I've seldom seen, brave boys, And an ale I've seldom seen. In eighteen hundred and forty-seven, On March the seventeenth day (Paddy's Day) We hoisted our colours to the top of the mast, And for Greenland we set sail, brave boys, And for Greenland we set sail.
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The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, research by a Geology PhD student at New Zealand's University of Otago reveals.
From mysterious pony deaths on Bodmin Moor to a grey whale in a calving lagoon, this week's pick of images from the natural world
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Beaked Whales - medium-sized big group of whales with beaks that come in gray, mottled, black and multicolored.
Mark Carwardine reveals the best ways to see whales in their natural habitat. But beware: whale-watching is highly addictive .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVgXJ55G6Y Dolphins have been observed creating and playing with intricate bubble rings. Perhaps one of the most fascinating forms of play in dolphins was described in a 1996 issue of Scientific American by Ken Marten and colleagues at Project Delphis. They describe the behavior of young bottlenose dolphins creating bubble rings. Dolphins can produce all…
Around 50 million years ago, whales were small carnivorous hoofed land animal resembling a horse/wolf mix called a ‘Pakicetidae.’ For unknown reasons, the Pakicetids transformed over time and evolved into the large, majestic species we now call whales.
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