A study of prehistoric bone tools from the Bay of Biscay revealed that they were 20,000 years old, the oldest known example ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans extensively harvesting whale products 20,000 years ago — roughly 1,000 years earlier than ...

Both Crance and Talty called this “uncommon” for a North Pacific right whale, though at least one other individual was also observed with barnacles on its body and was spotted off Half Moon ...

Callosities: Unique to right whales, these encrusted, barnacle-like rough patches of skin appear on the whales' lips and head. They serve as natural ID markers for researchers. Surface skimming ...

North Atlantic right whales feed primarily on zooplankton, which includes small crustaceans and other small invertebrates like krill, pteropods, and larval barnacles. Like other whales, they catch ...

Many right whales are struck by ships ... as Oakley from the patterns of his callosity — the distinctive barnacle-inhabited tissue on the whales’ backs. (Oakley’s look like a rifle ...

The migration routes of ancient whales have been revealed by examining the remains of tiny creatures that hitched a ride on their backs. Fossilised barnacles that stick to the bodies of these ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. The carcass of a huge humpback whale covered in barnacles and oozing body fluids, found washed ashore, has now been removed.