Radio broadcaster James Whale said he felt ‘touched’ when a black cab driver offered him a free ride after taking him to the hospital for cancer treatment. The talkRADIO star, 69 who recently revealed his diagnosis made him consider taking his own life, thanked ‘Gary’ the taxi driver for his kind gesture on Twitter. Taking … Read more
A lifeguard captured thrilling footage of a great white shark devouring a 17 foot whale off the coast of Long Island, New York. Jake Kolar filmed the feasting after he and a colleague ventured into the water to investigate a whale floating on its back. The short clips shows the predator biting at the whale … Read more
Broadcaster James Whale reveals he is fighting spine, kidney and brain cancers – and considered going to Dignitas when he got the diagnosis TalkRADIO star was given news two weeks ago – 20 years after his first diagnosis The 69-year-old has vowed to fight and said he wants to make it to at least 70 … Read more
Having a whale of a time! Giant mammal and her calf splash around with group of surfers off coast of Australia Mother and calf playing within inches of surfers off coast of Manly, Australia Drone footage captured by 31-year-old photographer Dominique Taylor Whales splash around near the surfers and even knocks some off their boards … Read more
Just before he turned 18 Christopher Swann joined the Royal Navy as a diver – ‘frogmen, brass helmets and lead boots, shipwrecks and the sea, this was the sort of adventure I had been longing for’, he said. The first time the Briton went diving was on a ‘bitterly cold winter’s day at the Royal … Read more
Just before he turned 18 Christopher Swann joined the Royal Navy as a diver – ‘frogmen, brass helmets and lead boots, shipwrecks and the sea, this was the sort of adventure I had been longing for’, he said. The first time the Briton went diving was on a ‘bitterly cold winter’s day at the Royal … Read more
This is the moment a quick-thinking sea otter clambered onto a boat to escape the orca chasing it. John Dornellas, 37, who works with Coldwater Alaska, an exploration company providing boat trips in the area, filmed the animal frantically swimming towards him as the orca followed in Halibut Cove Lagoon. The sea otter jumped onto the transom … Read more
Sperm Whales belong to the suborder of toothed whales and dolphins, known as odontocetes, and is one of the easiest whales to identify at sea. The creatures gained their name during the days of commercial whaling. Whalers thought that their large square heads were huge reservoirs for sperm, because when the head was cut open it … Read more
Whale skulls have got more lopsided over millions of years of evolution to help them sense objects from reflected sound waves – a process called ‘echo-location’. Scientists at the Natural History Museum studied 84 living and 78 extinct of the aquatic mammals from 50 million years ago to the present day. They found that as whales … Read more
PICTURE BOOKS MINI RABBIT MUST HELP by John Bond (HarperCollins £12.99) Another outing for the willing but accident-prone Mini Rabbit who is tasked by his surprisingly trusting mother with urgently posting a very important letter in the nearby town . . . Chaos ensues, of course, but there’s a funny ending and the pictures are … Read more