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Upon seeing the whale as a potential predator, the squid releases a burst of ink as a warning, but she is ignored by the whale, which launches a slow attack on the huge squid. Just before she reaches the mouth, the squid latches onto the whale and rakes him with her hooked suction cups, wounding him in the process.
Draculoides bramstokeri is a small, troglobite, Australian arachnid.Often mistaken for a spider, D. bramstokeri is a schizomid — a small, soil-dwelling invertebrate that walks on six legs and uses two modified front legs as feelers.
The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.
The sperm whale that beached itself off the coast of Venice in southwest Florida on Sunday has died. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the whale, measuring about ...
Here are 10 weird Ohio laws, from whale fishing prohibition to illegal patent leather shoe-wearing. ... marks Ohio's 221st birthday. That's right: the Buckeye State was officially granted ...
A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals.
Sperm whales defecate near the surface because they shut down non-vital functions when they dive to depths of up to 10,000 feet (3,000 meters Endangered sperm whales now have their first protected ...
Kogia pusilla is an extinct species of sperm whale from the Middle Pliocene of Italy. related to the modern-day dwarf sperm whale (K. sima) and pygmy sperm whale (K. breviceps). It is known from a single skull discovered in 1877, and was considered a species of beaked whale until 1997. The skull shares many characteristics with other sperm ...