Sea Lion Greatness
October 29, 2013I’ll just post this, which I love:
You mess with the whale, you get 40 tons of that whale all up in your grille. For real, this is the most whaletastic boat-ownage since the wreck of the Essex. (Image from South African EPA via NPR.)
The colossal squid in New Zealand is being defrosted and studied right now, and the lab set up a blog: http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/ While this squid is most fascinating, I can’t help but agree with this BBC dude that the catching of really weird deep-sea animals is a bad sign: it means fisherman are going further and […]
Two stories: 1. A whale swam so far up the Amazon River that he gets to take a boat back to the ocean. 2. Another whale got trapped in fishing lines, but freed itself and bailed. I got caught in that stuff scuba diving one time and it took me a long time to get […]
The Washington Post ran this thought-provoking article about the dearth of bluefin tuna in the sea. I’m not cool with that, because tuna is awesome. As much as I love tuna sushi, I’ll think twice about ordering it now. I like my oceans healthy and full of awesome fish, so the whales have somebody to […]