Read more about the article Rorqual With Crooked Spine Filmed Struggling Off Spanish Coast
Photo shows a disorientated whale with a spinal deformity swimming off the coast of Cullera, Valencia, Spain, Saturday, March 4, 2023. A short time later, the whale headed for the high seas and moved away from the coast. (The Oceanographic Foundation/Newsflash)

Rorqual With Crooked Spine Filmed Struggling Off Spanish Coast

This footage taken off the Spanish coast shows a huge whale with a crooked body bent at about 70 degrees. The 40-tonne rorqual - spotted two miles off the coast…

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Read more about the article Ray Of Light On Jaws’ 150-Million-Year-Old Ancestor
Image shows a palaeoreconstruction of the Solnhofen Archipelago 150 million years ago showing Protospinax annectans and the Jurassic ray Asterodermus platypterus, undated photo. Researchers at the University of Vienna, Austria, found out that the Jurassic shark was very developed. (Manuel Andreas Staggl/Newsflash)

Ray Of Light On Jaws’ 150-Million-Year-Old Ancestor

Evolutionary biologists have apparently solved the mystery of the missing link between modern-day sharks and rays. A new study of fossils dating back 150 million years of a Jurassic fish…

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Read more about the article Amputated Sea Spiders Can Regrow Their Rear Ends, Says Study
Image shows two sea spider (Pycnogonum litorale) individuals next to their prey - a sea anemone, undated photo. When researchers from the University of Vienna, Austria, illuminated them with a UV light source, the spiders fluoresce bright blue. (Georg Brenneis/Newsflash)

Amputated Sea Spiders Can Regrow Their Rear Ends, Says Study

Amputated sea spiders can regrow large parts of their bodies including their rear ends and reproductive organs, a new study has shown. Biologists discovered that the species of sea spiders…

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Read more about the article Derelict Rail Station Has Become Home To Hundreds of Wild Bee Species
Image shows rare steppe-bee Camptopoeum frontale in an undated photo. The Natural History Museum of Vienna in Austria reported on a rare wild bee species site Breitenlee on Monday, Sep. 5, 2022. (Sylvia Wanzenbock/Newsflash)

Derelict Rail Station Has Become Home To Hundreds of Wild Bee Species

A derelict World War I era railway station in Vienna is to be studied by biologists to unlock the secrets of wild bee communities, it has emerged. More than 450…

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Read more about the article Only Humans And Tuskers Use Their Nose And Mouth To Create  Sound
Image shows scientists Veronika Beeck (right) and Michael Kerscher (left) in Nepal in an undated photo. (Veronika Beeck/Newsflash)

Only Humans And Tuskers Use Their Nose And Mouth To Create Sound

Humans and elephants are the only mammals to combine their mouths and their noses to create sounds, a new study has revealed. Cognitive biologists Veronika Beeck and Angela Stoger-Horwath and…

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Read more about the article A Shipwreck Of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour Which Sank In 1778 Is Being Eaten By Worms
Shipworms found in the center of the timber that was salvaged from the wreck site off Rhode Island, which was discovered in February, 2022. The ship was used for one of the world's first scientific voyages before it sank in 1778. (Reuben Shipway,University of Plymouth,SWNS/Newsflash)

A Shipwreck Of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour Which Sank In 1778 Is Being Eaten By Worms

A shipwreck of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour which sank in 1778 is being eaten by crustaceans, experts have found. The ship's timber frame, located off the coast of Rhode…

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Read more about the article Brazilian Biologists Astounded To Find Extremely Rare Pregnant Albino Bat
The first time that the pregnant female of the Artibeus planirostris species is seen in nature, in Santa Terezinha, Brazil. (Leal/Newsflash)

Brazilian Biologists Astounded To Find Extremely Rare Pregnant Albino Bat

This picture shows the extremely rare pregnant albino bat that astounded Brazilian biologists. The specimen is the only pregnant flat-faced fruit-eating bat (Artibeus planirostris) that has ever been photographed in…

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