Life 23 September 2020 By Michael Le Page A Cuvier’s beaked whale beat the previous record for longest dive ever recorded by almost an hourDanielle_Waples A Cuvier’s beaked whale has made the longest dive by any mammal ever recorded, lasting 3 hours and 42 minutes. That smashes the previous record of 2 hours and 43…
A southern right whale died in Saldanha Bay after it was apparently struck by a ship.Attempts to tow its carcass back out to sea were suspended and it will now be removed by solid waste management officials. The carcass has been moved to Dial Rock Beach, where the environment department will collect samples.A southern right whale…
By Rowan Hooper A fin whale in the Mediterranean has no tail after colliding with shipsClara Monaco/MareCamp A disabled fin whale that has become a mascot for a marine sanctuary in the Mediterranean has suffered a second disaster. After losing half its tail in a collision with a ship, it has now lost the other…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara