The rotting carcass of a gray whale attracts the attention of visitors at Muir Beach in San Francisco in April 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along the Pacific Coast of North America about six years ago, oceanographers could only speculate about the cause: Was… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Working together, a pair of orcas have been killing great whites off the South African coastline since at least 2017, plundering the sharks’ nutrient-rich livers and discarding the rest. Scientists are trying to make sense… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Working together, a pair of orcas have been killing great whites off the South African coastline since at least 2017, plundering the sharks’ nutrient-rich livers and discarding the rest. Scientists are trying to make sense… Read More »
Eerie, fascinating and sometimes unnerving, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds heard echoing across the ocean. How baleen whales, which include humpback whales, can sing underwater has eluded scientists since whale songs were first discovered 50 years ago. Toothed whales, including dolphins and killer whales, have developed a vocal organ in their… Read More »
Memes portray him wearing a beret similar to the one worn by socialist revolutionary Ché Guevara. One caption declares: “Accept our existence or wait for resistance… an otter world is possible.” My academy focuses on animal-human relationships through the prism of social justice. From what I’ve seen, the public’s glee about ruined surfboards and yachts… Read More »
Numerous memes centered around the “orca revolution” have flooded the online world. They gleefully depict orcas attacking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Shetland coast. One particularly ingenious image shows an orca looking like an orca crossed with a hammer. The cheeky headline reads: “Eat the rich”, a reference to orcas’ penchant… Read More »
It’s easy to be misunderstood when you have the word “killer” in your name. Still, this year looked like a crazy year for killer whales. From “attacking” and sinking several boats off the coast of southwestern Europe to hunting great white sharks around South Africa and Australia, the black-and-white giants look set to live up… Read More »