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Blood, guts and suspiciously mangled fins: inside a porpoise autopsy

Blood, guts and suspiciously mangled fins: inside a porpoise autopsy

November 29, 2022November 26, 2022 Supertrooper 1 Comment

The corpse lies on the stainless steel table. Next to it, a tray of sharp blades, pliers and what look like garden implements. The body – dark-skinned above, but pale underneath – was found on the beach at Barmston, Yorkshire, in March, with its dorsal fin mysteriously missing. It’s a harbour porpoise – and I’m […]

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How birds of prey are exposing a toxic time bomb

How birds of prey are exposing a toxic time bomb

October 7, 2022October 5, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Rui Lourenço first started collecting eagle-owl feathers because they were beautiful. Below the birds’ cliff-side nests in rural Portugal, he would find their shed feathers and bring them back to his ecology lab at the University of Évora. “It was just the typical curiosity of a naturalist,” he says. “Especially the flight feathers, they’re large, […]

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‘Forever chemicals’ are now found not only in whales but also in human lungs!

‘Forever chemicals’ are now found not only in whales but also in human lungs!

June 25, 2022June 12, 2022 Supertrooper Leave a comment

Scientists detected a strange effect on the stress hormones of North Atlantic right whales in the aftermath of 9/11. Ships are abundant in our oceans, yet there was a huge slowdown in traffic throughout the North Atlantic eastern seaboard immediately after the planes flew into the twin buildings, lowering undersea noise. While the rest of […]

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Dead Baby Orca Shows Harmful Chemical Levels

Dead Baby Orca Shows Harmful Chemical Levels

June 8, 2021June 5, 2021 Supertrooper Leave a comment

An autopsy of a 10-day old orca found in Norway in 2017 revealed high levels of chemicals, according to a new study. Live Science reported that the young killer whale was one of eight orcas tested in the study. Seven of the tested orcas had levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) high enough to cause health […]

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