L’opération de levage du cétacé échoué à Rivedoux-Plage s’est déroulée samedi 30 mai au soir devant une foule compacte. Les ...
Une femelle rorqual commun, la deuxième espèce de baleine la plus grande au monde derrière la baleine bleue, est décédée ce ...
Une baleine de dix mètres et de douze tonnes s’est échouée à Rivedoux-Plage, à l’est de l’île de Ré, avant de mourir. La ...
Scientists have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its signature lunge-feeding behavior -- and may help explain their enormous size. Rorquals are a subgroup of baleen whales ...
Some of the world's largest vertebrates — rorqual whales — have a unique feeding strategy that is, researchers have discovered, facilitated by stretchy nerves, something that perhaps isn't surprising ...
Scientists at UBC have discovered — by accident — a rorqual whale can take a gulp of water that's bigger than its massive body, then bounce back to its normal shape. The whale has nerves to its mouth ...
Nerves aren't known for being stretchy. In fact, "nerve stretch injury" is a common form of trauma in humans. But researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 4 have ...
Lunge feeding in rorqual whales (a group that includes blue, humpback and fin whales) is unique among mammals, but details of how it works have remained elusive. Now, scientists have solved the ...
The world’s largest animals have been hiding something. The bodies of the giant rorqual whales—including the blue, fin and humpback—have been regularly displayed in museums, filmed by documentary ...
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