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The long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is a very large dolphin, measuring five to six meters long and weighing one to three tons. It is an entirely black dolphin (apart from a white ventral plastron), with a round head, almost without a differentiated beak, and a short, backward-arched dorsal fin. It lives in groups of several dozen ...
Dolphins use strand feeding in just a few places in the world, says Wayne McFee, who heads the Coastal Marine Mammal Assessments Program for NOAA’s National Ocean Service in Charleston. South ...
Heaviside's dolphin" is the recognised common name, though amongst others, "Haviside's dolphin" and "Benguela dolphin" are also used, the latter especially in Namibia. The genus name "Cephalorhynchus" comes from the Greek kephale for 'head' and rhynchos for 'beak'. For the species name "heavisidii" see the above description.
Timothy Wei, professor and acting dean of Rensselaer's School of Engineering, videotaped two bottlenose dolphins, Primo and Puka, as they swam through a section of water populated with hundreds of thousands of tiny air bubbles. Computer software and force measurement tools developed for aerospace were then used to study the particle-image ...
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Biagini founded Gone Whale Watching, one of several companies that sighted the pod of six orcas off the coast of San Diego on Monday. He said the hunt took around 30 minutes, which is much longer ...
The key distinguishing feature is the dolphin's coloration—a white to pale-yellow patch is found behind the dorsal fin on both sides of the body. [4] The white-sided dolphin's color variations are unique amongst the standard hues of white, grey, black and blue seen on other pelagic cetaceans. [4]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter said he once used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale. The story was recounted by Kick Kennedy in a 2012 profile that went viral over the weekend.