A sperm whale cracked the hull of a yacht sailing in the remote South Pacific, forcing four sailors into a day-and-night fight for survival on the high seas. Crew members on the 52-foot Tai Tam told AFP on Thursday of their weekend encounter with a pod of sperm whales 250 nautical miles north of tiny…
A dolphin rescued from the troubled theme park Marineland Canada has died weeks after it was taken to an aquarium in Spain. Several other animals from Marineland, including three beluga whales, have died at their new homes in recent weeks. Oceanogràfic València, Europe’s largest aquarium, said Thursday that the dolphin, known as Echo, arrived from Marineland with…
A female humpback whale has been documented apparently grieving a stillborn calf in new research released Wednesday, offering rare insights into the complex emotions of the sea-dwelling mammals. The footage, taken off Australia’s Gold Coast last year, shows a female humpback whale staying close to the dead calf as it lies motionless on the seafloor….
For the first time, the birth of a humpback whale was captured via drone earlier this week. Filmed off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, on Tuesday, the video shows the water fill with blood before the newborn calf emerges to take its first breath. A rare video of a humpback whale birth was…
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Two beluga whales settled into their new home — a 2-million-gallon salt water pool — in Texas on Tuesday following an international relocation mission from a shuttered Canadian theme park. The whales, named Bertie Bott and Frankie, traveled more than 1,500 miles from Niagara Falls, Ontario, to SeaWorld San Antonio. The same trip also brought…
