A new scientific paper reveals that most giant creatures lurking in the world’s oceans may have never been accurately measured by past research. The new paper also provides a set of more up-to-date estimates on the sizes of 25 oceanic giants. Craig McClain, marine biologist and blogger, was the one who came up with the idea for the study. He said that previous size-estimates of gigantic marine … [Read more...]
Humpback Whales Are Returning To New York Waters
Whale watchers have said that record numbers of humpback whales are returning to New York waters. The whales are swimming within just a mile of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. Director of the Ocean Giants program at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Howard Rosenbaum said that the fact that some of the most charismatic and largest animals ever to exist on the planet Earth are swimming within … [Read more...]
Cat parasite found in Arctic Beluga Whales
According to the scientists the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii affected the Arctic Beluga whales, which cause blindness in people in the western Arctic. It is also cited as an example of how the warming of the Arctic is letting the open movement of pathogens. The parasite often found on cats is likely to be imported into the region by people who brought the animals as pets. Its discovery … [Read more...]
Satellites to be used for counting whales!
A new way of counting whales from space through high-resolution satellite imagery was recently demonstrated by researchers.If the practice picks up around the world, researchers will no longer have to go looking for whales on boats and the process was created in order to make whale counts more accurate. High-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software designed to detect the … [Read more...]