Animals Buzz An extremely rare white killer whale was recently spotted in Russia. Please don't tell Sea World.
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/rare-interspec...
Their’s is a forbidden love. For the first time ever, bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales were photographed engaging in play off the coast of Hawaii.
A 33-foot-long beached dead whale was recently discovered approximately one mile inland of Yorkshire, England. Experts think the change in sea currents is what's causing colder Arctic waters to enter the North Sea, which is bringing a number of potentially stranded whales closer to the British shore. (via io9.com)
Sort of NSFW but not really. Honestly, the jokes are just too easy.
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While boating in the Gulf of California, a photographer and his family stumble across a juvenile humpback whale who is near death after getting tangled in a net. This is their story. SPOILER ALERT: Awwww.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/12/13/Stranded-whale-...
Happy ending for a sperm whale.
Animals are doing pretty well, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln_consume...
Yiying Lu, designer of Twitter's Fail Whale (or the adorable image that pops up when Twitter is overloaded), was featured in New York Times Magazine.
Science Buzz Dubbed “the unicorn of the sea,” the narwhal — a type of whale with a long, spiral tusk — is kind of magical. While they’re not necessarily as cute as manatees or (duh!) dolphins, the fascinating, lesser-known creatures are, believe it or not, more at risk from global warming than polar bears.
Science Buzz A baby whale that had been abandoned by its mother off the coast of Australia was euthanized after veterinarians determined it would not survive on its own. The poor little thing bonded with a yacht thinking it was his mother and tried to suckle from it. The whale was only two or three weeks old, hadn’t eaten for a week and had been bitten by sharks. The move to euthanize him has caused considerable controversy and animal lovers everywhere are mourning the loss of the whale nicknamed “Colin”.