May 21 – Funny Accent
Today’s Factismal: There are over twenty different dialects of orca. If you’ve ever traveled far from home, then you know that people can sound different in different places. People in Utica will tell...
View ArticleJuly 8 – Can You Hear Me Now?
Today’s factismal: The hydrophone was invented as a way of locating icebergs. Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. And nothing illustrates necessity like a disaster. That’s what happened in...
View ArticleOctober 30 – Get Humpback Where You Belong
Today’s factismal: A new species of humpback dolphin has been identified, living off the Australia coast. Great news from Down Under this week – scientists have identified a new species of humpback...
View ArticleSeptember 20 – Getting Nosey
One of the largest set of nostrils in the animal kingdom belongs to the humpback whale. Known to whalers and armchair bloviators alike as a blowhole, this is the sole way that air gets in and out of a...
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