Andrew David Thaler: I actually work a lot with dead whales, in the deep sea. When a whale dies at sea, it tends to sink, and that’s a huge input of food into deep-sea ecosystem, which tend to be very ...
The post Deep-Sea Ghost: How Scientists Finally Caught the Whale No One Had Ever Seen appeared first on A-Z Animals. Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the ...
For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries. Although identified in 1958, our basic understanding of this rare whale was ...