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Brendan Fraser’s Comedy Drama Smashes His Previous Film The Whale’s Record With Opening Day

Brendan Fraser’s Comedy Drama Smashes His Previous Film The Whale’s Record With Opening Day

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Rental Family North America Box Office ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Brendan Fraser’s new movie Rental Family steps out with a glow that reminds everyone of the surprise fire he lit with The Whale in 2022. That earlier drama earned him an Oscar for Best Actor and pulled him back into the spotlight after years where people wondered what came next for the George of the Jungle and The Mummy star. It also turned into his highest-grossing film of the decade and his biggest hit since the 2014 animated movie The Nut Job. Rental Family Box Office Opening: Strong Festival Debut Sparks Early Oscar Talk Now Rental Family, released on November 21, arrives with the same award buzz after its September debut at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Fraser already sits on Gold Derby’s list of the 15 most likely Best Actor contenders this year, sharing space with Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another and Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme. The critics have lifted the energy around him again, as Rental Family …

Killer Whales Trapped In Abandoned French Marine Park 4 Months After Closure

Killer Whales Trapped In Abandoned French Marine Park 4 Months After Closure

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It’s been more than four months since Marineland, a marine park in southern France, announced its closure, but two killer whales and a dozen dolphins are still stranded there. TideBreakers, an animal advocacy group, recently released distressing aerial footage of orcas – Wikie, 23, and her son Keijo, 11 – swimming aimlessly in the abandoned Marineland Antibes near Cannes, France. Activists rushed to relocate the abandoned creatures after they were left in what they described as “dangerous” and “despairing” conditions, The Standard reported. “The mother and son are still trapped there, waiting for their fate in collapsing tanks,” TideBreakers wrote, sharing the video on May 11. Approximately 45 kilometres west of Monaco on the French Riviera’s southern coastal town of Antibes, the park houses 12 abandoned dolphins in the algae-infested, deteriorating tanks. According to Marketa Schusterova, co-founder of TideBreakers, the emergency in Marineland Antibes needs to be addressed globally. “These are the last two remaining orcas in France in captivity and should be moved quickly,” Schusterova said, South West News Service reported. He added that the orcas …

NASA Spots Plankton Swarms from Space to Help Save North Atlantic Right Whales

NASA Spots Plankton Swarms from Space to Help Save North Atlantic Right Whales

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North Atlantic Right Whales (NARW) are one of the Earth’s most critically endangered mammals. While commercial whaling is no longer a threat to them, accidental entanglement in fishing gears and vessel strikes account for a lot of NARW deaths. Researchers have been tracking their movements to prevent these by mapping their primary food source, a reddish planktonic copepod named Calanus Finmarchicus. Using NASA satellite data, they found a way to detect Calanus swarms at the ocean surface in the Gulf of Maine, picking up on the animals’ natural red pigment. This new approach may help to understand the migration pattern of the NARW based on those copepod gatherings. Understanding the patterns According to a new study, this approach uses data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. The MODIS instrument reads how the spectrum of sunlight reflected from the ocean surface changes in response to what’s in the water. Astaxanthin, the reddish pigment of the copepods, alters the absorption or scattering of photons in the ocean, affecting the mix of living …

Bitcoin Price Rises Past ,000 as Whales, Institutions Continue Aggressive Acquisition

Bitcoin Price Rises Past $94,000 as Whales, Institutions Continue Aggressive Acquisition

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Bitcoin is currently trading at $94,200 (roughly Rs. 80.3 lakh) on international exchanges, amid aggressive acqusition by whales and institutions. The asset’s value rose by 7.80 percent over the past seven days, and saw a marginal 0.12 percent increase on global exchanges on Monday. On Indian exchanges, the Bitcoin price fell by 0.09 percent, and it is currently trading between $91,400 (roughly Rs. 78 lakh) and $94,1450 (roughly Rs. 80.3 lakh). The month of April was a challenging period for Bitcoin investors, when the asset fell to its lowest level (in 2025) to trade at $76,000 (roughly Rs. 64.8 lakh) owing to macroeconomic changes and the trade war between China and the US. “For now, BTC faces immediate resistance at $96,000 (roughly Rs. 81.9 lakh), while support remains at $90,500 (roughly Rs. 77.2 lakh). Glassnode data reveals a sharp rise in Whale accumulations, with wallets holding over 10,000 BTC increasing from 124,000 to 137,600 over the past month. This steady accumulation strengthens Bitcoin’s upward momentum,” Edul Patel, Co-founder and CEO of Mudrex told Gadgets 360. …

World’s most bizarre secret weapons: how pigeons, cats, whales, robotic catfish acted as spies through ages | Life-style News

World’s most bizarre secret weapons: how pigeons, cats, whales, robotic catfish acted as spies through ages | Life-style News

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The death of a spy is rarely newsworthy, due to the secrecy surrounding it. But when a white beluga whale suspected of spying for Moscow was found dead in Norwegian waters in September, the animal soon became a minor celebrity. The whale had been uncovered as a spy in 2019, and is one in a long line of animals which have been used by the intelligence services. Among them was a Soviet programme to train marine animals as spies and assassins, which collapsed in 1991. The US ran similar experiments with animals, some dating back to the 1960s. One of the CIA’s more unusual attempts to use animals as spies was Operation Acoustic Kitty. The idea was to implant a microphone and antenna into the cat and use it to eavesdrop on potentially interesting conversations. The test of the “prototype” went horribly wrong when the cat wandered off and was run over by a taxi, leading to the programme being quickly abandoned. The history of spy pigeons A more successful example was the use of …

Humpback Whale’s Unprecedented 8,000-Mile Migration Shatters Records

Humpback Whale’s Unprecedented 8,000-Mile Migration Shatters Records

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A humpback whale has undertaken an extraordinary migration spanning over 8,000 miles and three oceans, breaking records for the longest documented journey between breeding grounds. This exceptional voyage, reported in Royal Society Open Science, is believed to be influenced by changing oceanic conditions or evolving mating strategies, as suggested by researchers. According to Professor Darren Croft, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Exeter and Executive Director of the Centre for Whale Research, these migrations could be driven by climate change altering food availability or competition for mates leading to the exploration of new areas. Croft shared his insights with NBC News, describing the research as a significant discovery highlighting the extensive distances covered by humpback whales. Migration from Colombia to Zanzibar The whale was initially photographed off Colombia’s Pacific coast in 2013 and observed again in the same region in 2017, as per sources. By 2022, it was identified near Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean, a remarkable leap from its prior locations. As stated by Croft to NBC News, this migration covered a distance …

A stray whale’s death in a Japanese bay raises questions about the cause and the cost of disposal | World News

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A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a Japanese bay is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum. It’s the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in Osaka Bay, raising questions about the reasons why and the cost of handling the incidents. The animal was believed to be a male sperm whale, about 12 meters (39 feet) long and weighing an estimated 20 tons, and was earlier spotted in the Sakai Semboku Port in mid-January. It had since been spotted in a number of locations in Osaka Bay, until Sunday, when a boat captain reported to the coast guard that the whale was not breathing. Prefectural officials and experts took a boat to check on the whale and confirmed its death Monday, presumably due to starvation. Osaka officials have decided to bury the dead whale at a section of an industrial waste disposal complex after cetacean experts carried out an autopsy, collecting samples to determine the cause …