💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

The sounds revealing the secrets of world's most elusive whales https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251230-the-sounds-revealing-the-secrets-of-worlds-most-elusive-whales

"#BeakedWhales' long, deep dives mean they're difficult to study... They're often offshore, they're hard to access, and hard to see... A #NewSpecies, Ramari's beaked #whale, was discovered as recently as 2021... Using underwater microphones, scientists are listening to beaked #whales' echolocation clicks and buzzes... Each species has a unique pulse, an audio signature that tells scientists which is which."

Experts are baffled as rarely seen beaked whales are involved in a series of strandings.

A series of strandings of one of the world’s deepest dwelling and most rarely seen types of whale in the last few days across northern Europe have left scientists trying to understand why so many of the deep-diving whales have appeared.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250730-experts-are-baffled-as-rarely-seen-beaked-whales-are-involved-in-a-series-of-strandings?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Whales #Environment #Wildlife #MarineLife #Cetaceans #BeakedWhales #Strandings #Scotland #Netherlands #Europe

Surprising behavior in one of the least studied #mammals in the world https://phys.org/news/2024-02-behavior-mammals-world.html

Unusual use of shallow habitats may be evidence of a cultural tradition in Baird's beaked #whales https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347224000058

"The studied population of Baird's #BeakedWhales came close to the coast—within four km of land, and they were observed in shallow water, less than 300 meters."

Inspired by a story we published last year about the first confirmed live sighting of Sato’s beaked whales, artist Rozi Hathaway created a comic version! She included info about Hal Sato, a Japanese researcher dedicated to locating these evasive whales.

#BeakedWhales #ToothedWhales #WhaleComics #Whales #Cetaceans #CetaceanComics #MarineComics #OceanComics #MarineBiology #MarineZoology #WhaleStuff #SatosBeakedWhale #ScienceComic

https://hakaimagazine.com/videos-visuals/an-illustrated-tribute-to-the-satos-beaked-whale/