A study by the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (Smass) has revealed a dramatic rise in marine mammal strandings along Scotland’s coasts. More than 5,100 stranded ocean ...
Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers ...
How much squid do short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) off the coast of Hawai’i need to consume each day to survive and are there sufficient squid to sustain the population? Knowing ...
Off the rugged coast of Iceland, an extraordinary and puzzling phenomenon has captured the attention of marine scientists. Over the past few years, baby pilot whales—tiny and vulnerable—have been ...