From exploding prototypes to shattered records, the F-8 Crusader’s rise to dominance was anything but ordinary. In 1955, Vought stunned the world by breaking the sound barrier on the very first flight ...

Humpback whales spotted off UK ... Some of the largest ships are more than 300 metres ... But there’s a chance of seeing a humpback whale pretty much anywhere in Europe as their numbers rise.

While the distance of nearly 10,000 miles round-trip has been surpassed by that of the gray whale, humpback migrations are unique for another reason – the adult whales don’t eat for months at a time.

(Watch the massive pod of whales on YouTube.) Somewhere between 830 and 1,153 fin whales, along with a handful of humpback and blue whales, had gathered to gorge themselves on a dense patch of ...

By the 1980s, the population of humpback whales had plummeted, down to around 1,200 left in oceans worldwide. But then a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1985 gave the humpback whale population an ...

Water droplets from the whale rise into the air, ... "Humpback whales have migrated very early this year," he says. ... there were less than 300 southern right whales in the south-eastern population.

Data were collected using acoustic autonomous recorders deployed 200-300 m below the sea surface in waters 855, 1,118 ... no diel vocalizing patterns of humpback whale non-songs and songs from ...

A 2000 study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin found that levels of banned but persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are 250 parts per million in transient killer whales, making them ...

It’s a 300 metre deep, 10 mile-long inlet that cuts south and then south-east between stark snow-topped peaks. We motor there to find trawlers and gulls at the far end and still we see… nothing.

Eight years later, that question is finally answered.300: Rise of an Empire starts before the Battle of Thermopylae, showing how the cruel Artemisia aided Xerxes in his rise to rule Persia.

NORWALK -- Last summer brought the first humpback whale sightings in three hundred years to the Long Island Sound, but life remains dangerous for these gentle, 40-ton marine mammals. Before last ...