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Baby bump! Incredible moment a playful humpback calf nudges a kayaker as it breached off Hawaii Marcy Koltun-Crilley was kayaking in Hawaii when she spotted two whales and started filming them Amazing underwater footage from the 63-year-old’s GoPro shows a humpback whale mother and calf Baby humpback whale then breaches the surface and playfully bumps her kayak before … Read more
John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue Mon-Tues, ITV Rating: Taskmaster Thursday, Channel 4 Rating: John Bishop’s Great Whale Rescue wasn’t John Bishop’s exactly. I say this because transporting two Beluga whales from captivity in China to a reserve off the coast of Iceland took years of planning, 100 people in ten countries, bespoke stretchers, bespoke tanks, … Read more
A young woman developed an eating disorder that caused her to obsess over healthy eating after bullies called her a ‘whale’. Business director and coach, Emma Rose Doherty, 23, from Bath, Somerset, used to hide away from the world in her teens, feeling ashamed and insecure about her 11st 2lb weight and her UK 14 … Read more
A SECOND dead whale washes ashore bringing warnings of lurking sharks close to a string of popular beaches Another whale carcass washed up on Casuarina Beach, in northern NSW, The mature female pilot whale was found by beachgoers on Tuesday morning It comes after another dead whale washed up on the same beach on October … Read more
Smile for the camera! Whale shark swallows an entire shoal of fish in award-winning photo Photographer Evans Baudin captured the rare scene on a private dive in Mexico during coronavirus lockdown The huge female whale shark was friendlier than normal, and swam right towards the 32-year-old daredevil He managed to photograph astonishing moment the whale shark … Read more
INVESTING SHOW: Facebook and some other US tech shares are good value but I wouldn’t buy Tesla, says Blue Whale manager By This Is Money Published: 12:34 BST, 29 September 2020 | Updated: 12:34 BST, 29 September 2020 The high-flying Blue Whale Growth fund has reaped the rewards of the US stock market’s bounce back … Read more
Open wide! Incredible image of a whale shark with its mouth full of fish takes the top prize in Scuba Diving Magazine’s underwater photography contest Evans Baudin was announced as the overall winner with his shot of a whale shark swimming in Mexico Another shot showed a multi-coloured wunderpus – a species of octopus – … Read more
Cuvier’s beaked whale records longest known dive lasting almost four HOURS despite running out of oxygen after just 77 minutes Species of whale is known for extremely long dives as it forages for food Researchers at Duke University have recorded a dive lasting for 222 minutes Believed the species begins anaerobic respiration after just 77 … Read more
An orca named Tahlequah that touched the hearts of people around the world in 2018 after she carried her dead calf for 17 days has given birth to a new baby. The 21 year-old orca — or ‘killer whale’ — gave birth on September 4 to her new calf, dubbed ‘J57’ by researchers, in the … Read more
SoftBank made significant option purchases during the run-up in the U.S. stock market in recent weeks as a way of temporarily investing some proceeds from asset sales, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Investors had been speculating about the ‘Nasdaq whale’ conducting massive options purchases. Now, sources tell the Wall Street Journal that … Read more