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Extremely Rare Orca Hunting Behaviour Recorded Off Oban During Final Day of Orca Watch
A remarkable and potentially unprecedented orca hunting event was recorded off the coast of Oban on the final day of Scotland’s largest annual cetacean monitoring event, Orca Watch. At approximately 4pm on Sunday 31st May, a wildlife excursion operated by Hebrides Cruises…
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Returning to New Quay… the calm before the storm
I continued to finish my dinner when I heard a splash in front of me. A mother and calf were slowly passing by the harbour. They swam in unison, sometimes the calf falling slightly behind, learning to keep up with mum! I could see a few fetal folds on the calf, indicating that…
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A fresh look for Sea Watch Foundation!
Jan, 2026 by Harriet Goodchild As the world continues to evolve, and technology becomes more prevalent in our lives, organisations must keep up. With this Sea Watch Foundation is embracing the new year with a new us. The team here have been busy working behind the scenes to…
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Shifting baselines – forgetting the past, limiting the future
Nov 01, 2025 By Intern – Tom Davies Anthropogenic activities are impacting nature on a global scale (Storch et al., 2021), placing ecosystems under immense pressure. The world’s oceans are amongst the most heavily affected, under pressure from overexploitation, climate change,…
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Spooky Marine Creatures
Oct 31, 2025 By Intern: Alana Zammit In the spirit of our spookiest season, Halloween, I would like to introduce you all to some of the more unusual looking creatures that roam our vast ocean. First up, we have the very aptly named fangtooth fish. With the largest teeth in the…
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Meet Livyatan: the hypercarnivorous whale with teeth bigger than a T-rex
Oct 25, 2025 by Ben Phillips The ancestors of baleen whales that swam through the Peruvian seas approximately 12 to 13 million years ago likely faced a formidable threat in Livyatan melvillei – a fearsome apex predator with a taste for whale flesh. Figure 1: The skull of…
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How a colonial myth continues to threaten the Amazon river dolphin
Oct 18, 2025 by Cassie Lloyd-Watson The Amazon River Dolphin or Boto (Inia geoffrensis) is an iconic species with its pink skin, large beak and fascinating role in mythology. The species, which inhabits the basins of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, is unfortunately facing various…
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Plastic-free living
Sep 05, 2025 by Charlie, Cassie, and Geraldine The beginning of September marks Zero Waste Week – an annual awareness campaign to reassess our relationship with rubbish and reduce waste. First, a brief introduction to the life story of plastics. Most plastics are made from crude…
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Queer ecology… identities and nature
June 25, 2025 by Luke Maynard Happy June Sea Watchers! It’s Pride Month, and to celebrate, I thought I would write a brief blog about queer ecology, looking particularly at the ways that queer identities and nature can interact and what we can learn about nature, and humans, by…
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The importance of the Code of Conduct
Jun 16, 2025 by Rebecca Schouten The National Animal Rights Day (NARD) is a celebration involving 50 countries around the world, on the first Sunday in June, for the purpose of giving a voice to all animals and raising awareness for their rights. Three major pointers are…