New study demonstrates how whales protect their brains while swimming
The researchers gathered biomechanic information from 11 cetacean species, such as fluking frequency, and fed them into a computer model.
The researchers gathered biomechanic information from 11 cetacean species, such as fluking frequency, and fed them into a computer model.
Land mammals such as horses experience 'pulses' in their blood when galloping, where blood pressures inside the body go up and down on every stride.
Animal rights activists on Friday cheered a move by a shipping giant to alter course in Sri Lankan waters to avoid collisions with blue whales, the world’s largest mammals
"We are suspecting that a whale in the school was injured or sick, so the rest were following and guarding it.
We, as a species, are entirely disconnected from nature and we make sure that our children move away as quickly as they can. We have no more play the swings and seesaws of children's playgrounds are not play, but simply things to do to use up time.
Secluded, faraway places such as Antarctica invigorate the senses, quieten the mind and put the world in perspective.
In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers investigated gigantism in…
More than 200 whales stranded on a remote beach in New Zealand have refloated themselves and have returned to the…
