The most recent radio show on the Earth & Sky website today is about “live strandings,” or what happens when large marine mammals get stuck up waterways or on beaches. With the two lost and injured humpback whales still milling around the Sacramento River after two weeks of scientists trying to push them towards the […]
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We want to save the whales, but will they let us?
Published May 29th, 2007 in Oceans and Animals. 7 CommentsCute or scary? Creatures of the deep ocean
Published May 24th, 2007 in Bizarre, Oceans and Science. 8 CommentsThe New York Times has a review and slideshow of a very interesting, very new, and very beautiful science-related coffee table book. It’s called The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. The book features 220 color photographs of creatures from thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface, accompanied with essays by deep-sea scientists.
It’s […]