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The death of a 40-foot Sei whale off the coast of Edinburgh last year has sparked a renewed investigation into the deaths of thousands washing up on British shores. >> read more …

Wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Gent zijn bezig met de reconstructie van het skelet van potvis Valentijn. De potvis spoelde in 1989 aan op het strand van Oostduinkerke. Eind volgend jaar moet het skelet een van de blikvangers worden in het nieuwe visserijmuseum. >> lees verder …

With an enormous sperm whale to feast on, Svalbard polar bears gain access to more than just the bear necessities >> Read more …

Machine learning has been advancing dramatically over the past decade. Most strides are human-based applications due to the availability of large-scale datasets, however, opportunities are ripe to apply this technology to more deeply understand non-human communication. Sperm whales, with their highly-developed neuroanatomical features, cognitive abilities, social structures, and discrete click-based encoding make for an excellent … Meer lezen

A deep-water acoustic observatory for real-time detection and localization of vocalizing sperm whales was developed, deployed and operated for two 3-month periods in summer 2020 and 2021, off south-west Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in the framework of the SAvEWhales project. >> read more …

Researchers from Israel’s leading school of marine sciences have spotted a surprising guest last month off the country’s shores — a massive sperm whale. This great leviathan of the deep, who was previously unknown to the scientific community, has become the first whale to have been cataloged in Israeli territorial water, buying it the moniker … Meer lezen

Voor de oostkust van China is dinsdag een potvis gestrand. Het zoogdier werd gevonden door vissers. >> bekijk de reportage …

The whale that beached on Fonte da Telha beach, Almada, Setúbal district, died at 9:30pm last night and, at this moment, operations are underway to remove the animal. >> read more …

A 50-tonne sperm whale ‘got lost’ and ended up stuck in shallow water until locals helped him get back to sea. >> read more …

Conservationists fear a 13m-long (45ft) sperm whale will strand and die in shallow water in Shetland. The animal is a deep-diving species thought to have drifted in from its usual deep sea habitat about 50 miles (80km) west of the islands. >> read more …