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Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The ...
A baby sea creature was spotted hunting down anchovies with its mama off the coast of California. On June 14, a tour group got the chance to see their "largest pod" of long-beaked common dolphin, ...
Deep beneath the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean, a remarkable marine mammal performs feats that defy our understanding of mammalian physiology. The Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is ...
This remarkable dive lasted 137 minutes—over two hours spent in the crushing depths of the ocean. The previous record, also held by a Cuvier’s beaked whale, was 2,740 meters (8,990 feet). To put this ...
Cuvier's beaked whales hold the record for the deepest-diving mammal. They can go nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) below the water's surface — about 10 times deeper than the Eiffel Tower is tall..
At about 1,000 feet, the pressure could crush us! But lurking 3,000 feet underwater, in the mysterious Twilight Zone, is the Baird's beaked whale, a torpedo-shaped giant with a bird like beak!
Whale watching in Japan is a relatively new activity that successfully replaced whaling. Thousands of tourists join whale-watching tours, which makes it a profitable activity and safe for whales.
A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world's rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time.
Then, in 2010, a spade-toothed whale mother and calf washed ashore on another New Zealand beach near the Bay of Plenty. They were mistaken for common beaked whales, and only tissue samples were ...
Dave Anderson, who operates Capt Dave’s Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari out of Dana Point Harbor, clearly remembers the controversy and confusion over how to describe the long-beaked dolphins.
SPRING LAKE - A dead beaked whale was discovered early Thursday morning in Spring Lake at the beach near St. Clair Avenue, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center of Brigantine. Marine ...