Whale flatulence stuns scientists
Cancer? SO 1990's. AIDS? Dude, that was old in the '80's. Genetics? Yawn. Whale farts? Now THAT is the brave new scientific frontier, my friend.
IT'S one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal - flatulence.
And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its course right under their noses - literally.
The researchers claim this is the first photograph of a minke whale letting one go in the icy waters of Antarctica. It was taken from the bow of a research vessel.
"We got away from the bow of the ship very quickly ... it does stink," said Nick Gales, a research scientist from the Australian Antarctic Division.
Science is seldom easy, nor is it pretty, my friends....
