Science / Tags / Whale

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

scienceblogs.com -- Here's an interesting twist to a sad story: In May of this year, eskimos killed a 49-foot male bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, off the coast of Alaska and unexpectedly discovered that he had survived a similar hunt more than a century ago. While butche.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Jun 10, 2007 @ 10:02am neoform

BBC News -- Japan's long-term strategy to see a re-introduction of commercial whale hunting has suffered another rebuff. Its motion asking the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to review whale stocks was defeated. Approval for the.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:48pm neoform

SF Gate -- A young whale that swam aimlessly for two days in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn beached itself at an oil depot dock Wednesday and died suddenly. Animal activists said the minke whale, about a year old, was too young to survive on it.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Officials in Tokyo are to investigate claims that shipping crews stole a tonne of meat from Japan's whale hunt. Documents seen by the BBC confirm that public prosecutors will examine corruption allegations lodged by the environmental group Greenpeace... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Iceland's commercial whale hunt is set to begin, after the government granted a small minke quota on Monday. Whalers had been seeking a quota of about 100, but ministers settled on 40, which they say is commercially viable. The decision came after w.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Greenpeace conservation activists say they have disrupted the Japanese whale hunt near Antarctica's coast by chasing a factory ship out of the whaling zone. Crew from protest ship Esperanza said they were maintaining the chase as the whalers cannot hun.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence. Remains found in the Kashmir region of India suggest the fox-sized mammal is the long-sought land-based ancestor of whales, dolphins and porpo.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

BBC News -- The biggest whale fossil ever discovered in Italy has been found in one of the country's finest vineyards. The five-million-year-old skeleton, 33ft (10m) in length, was dug up in the northern grape-growing area of Tuscany. The vineyards of Castello.. Read More