Why We Can’t Shake Ambergris - Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 17, 2021 · In December 2020, British woman Jodie Crews posted photos online of a mysterious object she’d found at a beach. One helpful respondent suggested poking the object with a hot pin to see if it smoked, a common (if unreliable) test for ambergris. Crews did, and the object exploded into flames, setting fire to her kitchen.
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WEB3 days ago · As fall sets in, we follow our cast of wildlife characters as they go through a flurry of last-chance feasting and finding mates before the cold and wet of winter. See more at hakai.org. Hakai Magazine explores science, society, and the environment in compelling narratives that highlight coastal life and phenomena.
Iceland’s Confusing Inter-cetacean Conflict | Hakai Magazine
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Interactions between killer and pilot whales have only been scientifically documented a few times, and Samarra is among the first scientists to have observed this behavior in Iceland. Since the 2015 encounter, she’s seen similar interactions around 20 times. Iceland’s pilot whales may be assuming that the killer whales in the area, which ...
Fish Feel Pain. Now What? - Hakai Magazine
WEBJan 2, 2018 · It’s likely different from what humans feel, but it is still a kind of pain.”. At the anatomical level, fish have neurons known as nociceptors, which detect potential harm, such as high temperatures, intense pressure, and caustic chemicals. Fish produce the same opioids—the body’s innate painkillers—that mammals do.
Are COVID-19 Lockdowns Really Causing Nature to Heal?
WEBMay 26, 2021 · Share. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold last spring and people around the world went into lockdown, a certain type of news story started to spring up—the idea that, in the absence of people, nature was returning to a healthier, more pristine state. There were viral reports of dolphins in the canals of …
The Long Road to Ropeless Fishing | Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 21, 2024 · The Long Road to Ropeless Fishing. The first step to overcoming fishers' resistance to the new conservation-focused technology is building trust. by Moira Donovan. August 21, 2024 | 1,100 words, about 5 minutes. The past decade has not been kind to North Atlantic right whales —or to the fishers who …
Treasure Fever - Hakai Magazine
WEBJan 14, 2020 · They recovered over 18,000 silver coins. The world’s most famous explorer of the high seas, Mel Fisher, won rights to Spain’s Nuestra Señora de Atocha, which sunk near the Dry Tortugas islands, over 56 kilometers west of Key West, Florida, in 1622. The discovery was valued at nearly $400-million.
The Mysterious, Vexing, and Utterly Engrossing Search for the …
WEBSep 13, 2022 · In the fourth century BCE, Aristotle proclaimed that eels spontaneously generated within “the entrails of the earth” and that they didn’t have genitals. The no-genital theory held for generations. Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder asserted that eels rubbed against rocks and their dead skin “scrapings come to life.”.
The Oral History of Toothless Whales - Hakai Magazine
WEBAug 29, 2017 · Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea. Hundreds of these flexible plates, made of the structural protein keratin, grow downward from a whale’s upper jaw, lined up like the slats of venetian blinds. Fitting the plates into the mouth requires a large upper jaw, giving baleen whales a sort of upside-down grin.
Investigating Ice Age America’s Ancient Abattoir
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Share. Article body copy. During the last ice age, wooly mammoths, bison, caribou, and herds of fuzzy, stocky horses roamed the tundra-like grasslands of Beringia—a now-sunken landmass that once connected Siberia to Alaska and Yukon—munching vegetation and running from predators like steppe lions, bears, and wolves.