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BUXFyeDCQAAdry4.jpg largeChris Lindsay tweetz:

DOE staff battling to save a young pilot whale at Portballintrae – sadly, it died – more on @bbcnewsline

 

The second whale to die on the North coast in the past week.

On Saturday, a stranded whale died in Cushendall.

*blubber*

Padraig Whooley has got the humpback.

Why?

He writes:

I see some people are doubting the legitimacy of my Tweeted photo of the Humpback from earlier. Please see a hi-res version attached – hopefully it will shut a few people up.

 


A crew of Australian fishermen off Cairns hook a 600lb Marlin – the catch of a lifetime.

Until two Tiger sharks get a sniff of it. (NSFW language).

Meanwhile in other scavenger news…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Z5hYuIomE

Around a hundred sharks feast on the body of a dead whale at a beach in northwestern Australia.

That’s close enough there, missy.

awesomer/bitsandpieces

Directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman.

You’ve seen Blue Planet. You know what happens when a whale dies. It sinks to the bottom of the ocean and is gradually scoffed by a myriad of other ocean dwellers.

Well here’s that same story told through the always-charming medium of papercraft.

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