All posts tagged: Whale

Beluga whale live cam goes launches. YAY!

Beluga whale live cam goes launches. YAY!

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. There’s no denying that it’s been a brutally hot summer in North America and Europe. So if you need a new way to cool off as another heat dome settles in, allow us to suggest the annual Beluga Cam. The cam officially goes live on Wednesday, July 15 (Arctic Sea Ice Day), and will show the canaries of the sea on their summer vacation in Canada. Until then, beluga enthusiasts can enjoy the 2025 highlight reel.  Beluga Boat Underwater Cam 2025 | Highlights Roughly 57,000 beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) migrate to southern Canadian waters during the ice-free summer months. These white whales travel to the Churchill River, which then flows into Hudson Bay. While there, they feed, molt, and give birth to their …

Photos: The Rescue of Timmy the Whale

Photos: The Rescue of Timmy the Whale

Sebastian Peters / NEWS5 / AFP / Getty An aerial photo taken on May 2, 2026, shows the rescued humpback whale offshore near Skagen, after it was released from a barge. It had been struggling to survive after beaching off the German coast but was released into the North Sea off Denmark, Germany’s News5 agency said. Dubbed Timmy by the German media, the whale was first spotted stuck on a sandbank on March 23 near the city of Luebeck before freeing itself and then becoming stuck again several times. Some experts expressed concern about the whale’s immediate prospects, noting that the whale had been quite ill, and that such a lengthy stranding weakened it significantly. Source link