Beaked Whale Shatters Record With 3 Hour 42 Minute Dive

The film “Ben-Hur” operates some hours that are three-and-a-half. A Cuvier’s beaked whale could watch the film that is entire, never ever going for a gulp of atmosphere, as time passes to spare.

“They are remarkable divers,” said Nicola fast, a marine biologist at Duke University. These pointy-snouted cetaceans, which frequent the world’s deep waters, have actually clocked the longest and deepest dives of every marine mammal ever recorded, plunging almost 10,000...