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Fish traveling in schools are a wonder of nature
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 11 days ago
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DOG BAY, Isla Tiburon, Sea of Cortez » One of my goals in sailing the Sea of Cortez is to see marine life I've not seen before. Blue and sperm whales, two species that frequent this northern stretch, are high on my wish list, but so far those giant marine...
Tags: fish balls, Isla Tiburon, Honolulu, Aquatic ecology, Megafauna, Shoaling and schooling, Sperm Whale, Whale, Hospitality Recreation, Fisheries, Ichthyology, Fish
The Turner prize trinity
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Adrian Searle plunges in and picks his winner Tate curators explain what's behind the artwork in the 2009 Turner prize Link to this video Much is always expected of the Turner prize show, and critics and the public alike give more weight to the exhibition...
Tags: turner prize, Tate Britain, Roger Hiorns, Richard Wright (author), UK Turner, sperm whale, Lucy Skaer, jet engine, Enrico David, London
Nantucket antique dealer indicted for importing sperm whale teeth
Boston :: MA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility A Nantucket antique dealer has been charged with the illegal importing and trafficking of sperm whale teeth. The Justice Department said Friday that a federal grand jury in Boston indicted David Place on multiple counts of conspiracy and violating a federal...
Tags: whale teeth, sperm whale, Nantucket
Desperate race to save stranded whales
Hobart :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility Tasmania’s far North-West Coast are still alive, but rescuers are still hopeful. They plan to drag the surviving whales back into the water sometime today, the Mercury reports . Forty-eight giant sperm whales were reported stranded on a sandbank at Perkins...
Tags: whales, tasmania, beached, stranded, Australia, Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife, sperm whale, Perkins Island, island ones, masse beaching
Hope fades for stranded whales
Sydney :: Australia | 10 months ago
Credibility The whales grounded at Perkins Island, near the mouth of the Duck River at Smithton last night. Police were notified about 8.30pm but were unable to get close to the whales due to the location and the tide...Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Services spokeswoman...
Tags: whales, beached, stranded, Perkins Island, Smithton, Liz Wren, sperm whale, wildlife services, Duck River, Parks and Wildlife Service
It was a pygmy sperm whale
Kuala Terengganu :: Malaysia | 10 months ago
Credibility A beached marine animal found by a jogger on Tuesday evening has been identified as an endangered pygmy sperm whale. State Fisheries Department director Munir Mohd Nawi said that although the 70kg female whale measuring 3.14m was common in the South China...
Tags: sperm whale
Man accused of illegally importing sperm whale teeth
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A man was charged in federal court in San Francisco today with illegally importing teeth from sperm whales that were used for art, court records show. More Bay Area News James Saunders imported 17 pounds of sperm whale teeth from a Ukrainian national...
Sperm whales live year-round in Gulf, new study finds
Lyman :: WY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Sperm whales, one of the world's largest and least-understood creatures, congregate year-round in the Gulf of Mexico despite the region's extensive drilling and shipping activity, according to a study released today. The four-year federal study found...
Tags: sperm whale
Huge sperm whale stranded along beach
Corpus Christi :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A 30-foot-long sperm whale weighing more than eight tons was euthanized after stranding itself in shallow surf along the Texas coast. The whale washed up about 40 feet from the shore Tuesday on Mustang Island. Onlookers watched it thrash about before...
Tags: Texas, sperm whale, texas coast
Dolphin guides two stranded whales out to sea
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility Wellington, March 12 : A friendly dolphin saved two pygmy sperm whales stranded off a New Zealand beach, steering them out to sea, according to a Conservation Department worker quoted in a news report Wednesday. " It was amazing," Malcolm Smith
Tags: New Zealand, stranding whale, zealand beach, dolphin saved, sperm whale, bottlenosed dolphin, pygmy sperm
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