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Two killer whales have killed dozens — if not hundreds — of sharks, including the vaunted great whites, with an ease that has stunned marine biologists.
An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...
Argentina's Patagonian coast has welcomed back a creature that had long been absent from the area after it was hunted to near extinction. Sei whales, the third-largest species of whale ...
They were named for being the "right" whales to hunt since they floated when they were killed, according to NOAA Fisheries. North Atlantic right whales have stocky black bodies, no dorsal fin ...
SEATTLE — A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg’s killer ...
and provided a video showing a whale being hunted for five hours. The practice has declined in recent years, thanks to suspensions in previous years and in large part to a drop in demand for whale ...
When they die, they stop being photographically “resighted ... Analysis of proteins from the eyes of hunted whales provided ...
As recently as the late 1950s, audiences flocked to cinemas to see whales being hunted on screen in the film Moby Dick. It seems almost inconceivable that within one generation attitudes have ...
Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...