While some animals, like turtles, can spend a whole winter deep in a frozen lake, they basically turn off their lungs and hibernate the whole time.

As for mammals, things are a bit different. The most impressive among them are whales, seals, and otters.

It’s believed that the winner is Cuvier’s beaked whale, with an average breath holding time of 67 minutes and one-time record of 138 minutes. The second place is held by a northern elephant seal that was once caught holding the breath for 119 minutes. The third place belongs to a sperm whale with a recorded time of 90 minutes.

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The new species was spotted swimming next to a melon-headed whale in Hawaii.

“Melon-headed whales have a very rounded head, and rough-toothed dolphins have a very long, gently sloping rostrum, or beak,” says Robin Baird, a researcher for Cascadia Research Collective. “Instead of having a rounded head like a melon-headed whale or the long, sloping rostrum of a rough-toothed dolphin, it had something in between. So it had a sloping rostrum, but a relatively short one.”

Melon-headed whales are not actually whales but belong to the dolphin family. Still, this is the first time that a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin hybrid was spotted.

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The protected reserve will spread over nearly 18,000 square miles. As the government announced, the area “is of great ecological value and represents a migration path of vital importance for cetaceans in the Western Mediterranean.”

Spain’s minister for ecological transition, Teresa Ribera, says that “this is the end of new prospecting or any type of extraction of fossil fuels” in the protected area.

Spain hopes to protect species like Fin whales, pilot whales, sperm whales, striped dolphins, and more.

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While some animals, like turtles, can spend a whole winter deep in a frozen lake, they basically turn off their lungs and hibernate the whole time.

As for mammals, things are a bit different. The most impressive among them are whales, seals, and otters.

It’s believed that the winner is Cuvier’s beaked whale, with an average breath holding time of 67 minutes and one-time record of 138 minutes. The second place is held by a northern elephant seal that was once caught holding the breath for 119 minutes. The third place belongs to a sperm whale with a recorded time of 90 minutes.

The post What Animal Can Hold Its Breath Longest? appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

The new species was spotted swimming next to a melon-headed whale in Hawaii.

“Melon-headed whales have a very rounded head, and rough-toothed dolphins have a very long, gently sloping rostrum, or beak,” says Robin Baird, a researcher for Cascadia Research Collective. “Instead of having a rounded head like a melon-headed whale or the long, sloping rostrum of a rough-toothed dolphin, it had something in between. So it had a sloping rostrum, but a relatively short one.”

Melon-headed whales are not actually whales but belong to the dolphin family. Still, this is the first time that a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin hybrid was spotted.

The post Scientists Just Found the First Hybrid Dolphin appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

The protected reserve will spread over nearly 18,000 square miles. As the government announced, the area “is of great ecological value and represents a migration path of vital importance for cetaceans in the Western Mediterranean.”

Spain’s minister for ecological transition, Teresa Ribera, says that “this is the end of new prospecting or any type of extraction of fossil fuels” in the protected area.

Spain hopes to protect species like Fin whales, pilot whales, sperm whales, striped dolphins, and more.

The post Spain Creates Mediterranean Sea Reserve for Whale Migration appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.