whales Archive
-
Whales stranded on deadly New Zealand beach
Posted on February 19, 2017 | No CommentsIn the third largest whale beaching event in the history of New Zealand, over 400 pilot whales washed up onto the country’s South Island last […] -
Big Whales Have Super Stretchy Nerves
Posted on May 10, 2015 | No CommentsThis week, researchers from the University of British Columbia published a paper in Current Biology on their serendipitous discovery of the stretching nerve cords of whales. The […] -
Whales and Cancer
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsOne of the great things about Oxford really is that it often takes you less than a 10 minutes’ walk to listen to leading experts […] -
Whales’ diving and foraging better understood with new tracking system
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsScientists are gaining new insights into how whales dive and search for food after attaching multi-sensor tags to them. These sensors measure the acceleration of […]