It's not just domestic plastic waste that's threatening marine life across the globe, discarded fishing gear and marine debris can be just as deadly. DJI has joined forces with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oceans Unmanned to explore safer whale rescue – using drones.
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For the first time ever, scientists have managed to slap a camera onto the back of a minke whale as it swam through the icy waters of Antarctica, surprising researchers with its speed and a seemingly voracious appetite.
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Even though blue whales don't have hands, or even feet, a new study has shown that most of them are in fact right-handed. This can be seen in the way that they feed. Interestingly, however, there's one particular situation in which they tend to go left instead.
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Ordinarily, baleen whales feed by opening their mouths and lunging forward into the water. Recently, however, scientists have documented another more passive form of feeding in the whales, which is known as "tread-water feeding."
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If you were a whale, chances are you wouldn't like someone following along above you in a motorboat. That's traditionally how researchers ascertain what types of bacteria are present in a whale's exhaled breath, though. Now, scientists have utilized a less intrusive method – they've used a drone.
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Humpback whales are famous for their complex and mysterious songs, and scientists tuning into their sounds off the coast of Australia have discovered the interesting way in which they acquire these singing skills.
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Many whales feed by filling their mouths with water, then straining organisms out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen. Now, scientists claim to have come a step closer to understanding how that baleen came to be.
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The blue whale may be the largest animal ever, but new research has found it only claimed the title relatively recently. By comparing the bones of modern whales to fossils, a team of scientists has traced the growth spurt to about 4.5 million years ago, when climate change increased the food supply.
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Scientists have never been able to pin down the exact purpose a narwhal tusk serves, but now using drones, they've uncovered direct evidence of the overgrown tooth in action, with a healthy appetite appearing to be a key motivator.
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Scientists know little about the behavior of baby humpback whales during their first long migration, but new recordings appear to have unearthed a crafty technique that might just help keep them out of the jaws of killer whales.
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