Charles was born in Detroit, Michigan to Swedish immigrants. Growing up on a farm in Little Falls, Minnesota his father became an attorney and U.S. congressman who was opposed to the U.S. joining the First World War Lindbergh’s mother was a chemistry teacher. Similarly to Bill Gates, whose father was also a lawyer and mother ...
Blue whales, balsenoptera musculus, are the largest animals on Earth. They measure 65 to 105 feet (20 to 32 meters) and weigh anywhere from 100 to 200 tons (90,718 to 181,437 kilograms) with females being larger than males. Their heads make up around 25 percent of their entire body length. Like all whales, blue whales ...
The Antarctic krill, euphausia superba, are almost invisible to the naked eye. They only measure 2.3 inches (6.2 centimeters) in length, and weigh about 0.03 ounces (1 gram). Their bodies are divided into 3 sections, 2 of which are fused together (the head and thorax form the cephalothorax). Each section is then divided into individual ...
When the cable channel Animal Planet aired its semi-reality show called Whale Wars recently, I grew interested in the program because I’d been reading a recently published book about whaling titled Harpoon by Australian author Andrew Darby (da Capo Press). The book mentions Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who is the focus ...
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