What’s getting to be a familiar story, the warming ocean waters continue “unraveling” sea life. In a recent “Science News” story, Adelie and chinstrap penguins are another species undergoing a forced weight-loss program—less available krill for meals in the West… Read More ›
Month: April 2011
Our Trash Chokes A Northern Elephant Seal
It’s ironic that the northern elephant seal’s worst nightmare was the human mammal–not its natural predators the great white shark and orca. In the 1800s oil hunters slaughtered nearly the entire northern elephant seal population…