The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have a truly extraordinary photograph online: a life size image of a Blue Whale. You can travel leisurely over the entire leviathan for as long as your dreams allow. Read on to find out some more about this most majestic of beasts – which even puts the largest dinosaurs down to size.
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
My species is the largest that ever lived, with one of the longest life spans on record – 150 years or more... and you nearly killed us all! That’s right, I’m a giant blue whale, over 100’ long, and if you had a scale that could handle me, I’d weigh about 170 metric tons. Nothing that big that ever lived on land can match this.
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Surprisingly, more than 40 Right Whales were observed in the Gulf of Maine in early December, 2008. On the verge of extinction, the Northern Right Whale may be increasing in numbers and on the way to recovery. That's got to be good news for any environmentalists worth their salt.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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