🦈⚔️ Researchers in #Mexico's Gulf of California filmed #orcas hunting juvenile great white #sharks using a sophisticated strategy that exploits the sharks' tonic immobility response. The orcas coordinate attacks to flip sharks upside down, then harvest their energy-rich livers and share the prize among their pod, including calves.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-predator-in-the-ocean-instilling-terror-in-great-white-sharks

#greatwhitesharks #gulfofcalifornia #marinebiology #predators #animalbehavior #oceanlife #hunting #science #wildlife #conservation #animals

There's One Predator in The Ocean Instilling Terror in Great White Sharks

There's one beast in all the ocean that strikes terror even into the heart of the great white shark, once regarded as the most fearsome predator in the sea.

ScienceAlert
Whales and dolphins at risk as report reveals ecological decline in Gulf of California

Lorayne Meltzer has lived along the Gulf of California for 30 years. As an ecologist and director of a binational field station, she’s supported many scientists in their research into this biodiverse region of northwestern Mexico. Over time, she’s observed changes in the region’s ecosystems and species firsthand. Most of these changes, she said, haven’t […]

Mongabay Environmental News

Hey Mexico...

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

#Humor #Funny #Meme #GulfOfAmerica #GulfOfMexico #GulfOfCalifornia

#SpermWhale departure linked to decline in jumbo #squid population in #GulfofCalifornia
Study offers insight into relationship between apex marine predators and their environment, highlighting sperm #whales as key indicators of oceanic health. Conducted over 9-years, utilized extensive survey data and photo-identification techniques to track sperm #whale populations. Finding striking correlation between decline of #jumbosquid and disappearance of sperm whales from region
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-sperm-whale-departure-linked-decline.html
Sperm whale departure linked to decline in jumbo squid population in Gulf of California

A PeerJ study has revealed a significant departure of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from the central portion of the Gulf of California, is linked to the collapse of the jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) population, their primary prey.

Phys.org
#Mexico expedition sights only 6 to 8 #vaquita #porpoises, the most endangered #marinemammal
Last year, experts on a sighting expedition estimated they saw from 10 to 13 of the tiny, shy, elusive porpoises during nearly two weeks of sailing in the #GulfOfCalifornia, also known as the #SeaOfCortez. More troubling, no baby vaquitas were seen this year by the conservation group #SeaShepherd https://phys.org/news/2024-06-mexico-sights-vaquita-porpoises-endangered.html
Mexico expedition sights only 6 to 8 vaquita porpoises, the most endangered marine mammal

The number of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises sighted in the Gulf of California fell to between 6 and 8 this year, researchers said Tuesday.

Phys.org

SAVE JAGUAR CORRIDORS in the Mexican borderlands

The #MexicanGovernment is building a railway expansion project straight through a crucial #wildlife corridor for imperiled #jaguars, #ocelots and #BlackBears without doing any environmental impact studies.

Running from #Guaymas on the #GulfOfCalifornia to #Nogales on the U.S.-Mexico border, the railway project will wreak havoc on #habitat essential for ocelots in their northern breeding grounds.

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#Mexico

#EarthquakeReport for #OTD in 2017 M5.7 #Sismo #Terremoto #Earthquake in the #GulfOfCalifornia #MarDeCortés offshore of #Mexico

right-lateral strike-slip (moving side-by-side) earthquake
overlapping fracture zones & spreading ridges

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Earthquake Report: Gulf California! - Jay Patton online

There was an earthquake yesterday in the Gulf of California nearby a series of earthquakes that happened in 2015 and earlier in 2013. The 2017 and 2013 earthquakes are happening along a fault that forms the Carmen Basin and the 2015 earthquakes are rupturing a fault that appears to be in the middle of the

Jay Patton online - The Center, Body, and Range of Technically Defensible Interpretations. The CBD of TDI.
First Extinction Alert Issued In 70 Years For Rarest Marine Mammal On Earth

“We wanted... for everyone to understand how serious this is.”

IFLScience
P-wave from today’s (20:30:23 UTC 2023/06/18) M6.3 #GulfOfCalifornia Region #earthquake recorded on my #RaspberryShake seismometer in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England
Magnitude 6.3 #earthquake in the #GulfOfCalifornia #Mexico 40 minutes ago (2023-06-18Z20:30).
Incredible long-period signal on station MX.SRIG (Santa Rosalia, Mexico, courtesy of the Mexican National Seismic Network) - assuming this one was harmless (?)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000k9f0/executive