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I’m willing to bet that if asked ‘which countries still kill whales for profit?’ the most popular response would be ‘Japan’, maybe followed by ‘Iceland’. So why is it that Norway’s minke whale hunt passes virtually under the radar? >> read more …
Evolution does not consistently favour bigger brains. Instead, it’s more common for mammals to have evolved smaller body sizes which makes it look like the brain is getting bigger. >> read more …
Blankenberge, 28 april 2021 – Vanochtend werden op het strand van Blankenberge 2 zeehonden vrijgelaten door Sealife. Luc david die 1 zeehond geadopteerd had, was erbij.
Cetaceans, a group of marine mammals that includes whales and dolphins, evolved from ancestors that walked on land around 50 million years ago. Somewhere along the way, the forward-pointing nose shifted to an upward-pointing blowhole, making it easier for the animals to breathe air while swimming. >> read more …
Art historians have long debated whether Leonardo da Vinci created a sculpture of Flora, Roman goddess of flowering plants, housed in the collections of Berlin’s Bode Museum. Now, reports Vincent Noce for the Art Newspaper, evidence presented by a trio of researchers proves that the Renaissance giant couldn’t have made the work. >> read more … Meer lezen
Marie Robberecht is marien biologe en als wetenschappelijk medewerker werkzaam in het datacentrum van het VLIZ. Voor deze rubriek koos Marie het boek ‘De dag dat de walvis kwam’ geschreven door John Ironmonger. Een geweldig verhaal over de mensheid, met een zeer actuele invalshoek. Een aanrader voor iedereen die zin heeft in een feelgoodroman die zich afspeelt in de typische sfeer van een Noord-Atlantisch vissersdorp.
How long can you hold your breath underwater? If you’re not a professional free-diver or a navy seal, chances are you’ll probably reach around a minute or two. While the human record of natural underwater breath-holding lies at an impressive 11 minutes, marine mammals easily beat all the records. >> read more …
One of the world’s leading professional services firms, Deloitte has joined with WDC in a bid to explore how space technology can tell us more about whales, and how to protect them. >> read more …
Whales are the largest animals of ALL TIME… At one stage of their evolutionary history, they lived on land! In this new series, I’ll be documenting this remarkable step-wise transition to the water… but what did these walking whales look like?
From singing competitions to food preferences, scientists are learning whales have cultural differences once thought to be unique to humans. >> read more …