Every color under the sun, most shades of blue and green, are safe to use in waters where you don’t want sharks, but bright colors of reds and oranges will attract them. This is because of how the texture and pigments in reds, yellows, and oranges reflect light. Red colors are often made up of […]
“How do whales die?” is a question everyone would like to know the answer to. Many people wonder if there is some sort of ritual that takes place when these giants of the sea pass, or maybe they are simply just sinking into obscurity with nothing more than a ripple in the oceanic waters. Whether […]
Barnacles are small crabs that attach themselves to whales for protection and food. They inhabit the skin of most whale species, except for toothed whales, such as dolphins. In some extreme cases, they grow in massive colonies, forming a thick crust over large areas of their bodies. At first, the barnacle feeds on the whales’ […]
Sharks are a type of animal that can live in either fresh or saltwater. Sharks’ bodies are covered with tough scales and have teeth perfect for capturing fast-moving prey like fish, squid, and shellfish. There are several reasons why sharks cannot swim backward. One is the shape of their fins which prevents them from stirring […]
This is a question that has puzzled both marine biologists and the general public for many years. This confusion is because sharks are some of the most ancient (and portrayed as the scary) fish in our oceans; they do not have bones like we expect them to have but instead make up their skeletons with […]
Breaching behavior is a spectacularly energetic and visually impressive mode of diving in which the whale propels itself out of the water with its tail. Animals such as dolphins, seals, sea lions, and even humans can breach. Still, only two groups of animals regularly perform this behavior – baleen whales (blue, humpback, minke, rorqual, and […]
