In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales: they simply opened their mouths to let fish swim in Researchers Flinders think this behaviour could date back 2000 years and explain the myth of Norse sea creatures, hafgufa
In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales: they simply opened their mouths to let fish swim in. Now, researchers think this behaviour may not be as new as it seems.
John McCarthy, a maritime archaeologist at Flinders University, Australia, believes whales could have been the inspiration for mythological Norse sea monsters known as hafgufa. After studying 2000-year-old Norse manuscripts, he and his colleagues found that the descriptions of how the ancient sea monsters fed matched the trap behaviour recently observed in Bryde’s and humpback whales.
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