L’échouage d’un rorqual boréal à Rivedoux-Plage, sur l’île de Ré, a marqué les esprits par son caractère spectaculaire et ...
Après l’échouage d’un rorqual boréal sur le littoral de Rivedoux-Plage, samedi 30 mai, les premières conclusions de la ...
L’opération de levage du cétacé échoué à Rivedoux-Plage s’est déroulée samedi 30 mai au soir devant une foule compacte. Les ...
Some of the world's largest vertebrates — rorqual whales — have a unique feeding strategy that is, researchers have discovered, facilitated by stretchy nerves, something that perhaps isn't surprising ...
Scientists at UBC have discovered — by accident — a rorqual whale can take a gulp of water that's bigger than its massive body, then bounce back to its normal shape. The whale has nerves to its mouth ...
Scientists have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its signature lunge-feeding behavior -- and may help explain their enormous size. Rorquals are a subgroup of baleen whales ...
Nerves aren't known for being stretchy. In fact, "nerve stretch injury" is a common form of trauma in humans. But researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 4 have ...
Lunge feeding in rorqual whales (a group that includes blue, humpback and fin whales) is unique among mammals, but details of how it works have remained elusive. Now, scientists have solved the ...
A recently published scientific paper titled “Kinematic Diversity in Rorqual Whale Feeding Mechanisms” (in Current Biology, Sept. 2016, Cade et al) caught my eye for a number of reasons. I had just ...