“The Bambino” knocked this one out of the park. The first Babe Ruth baseball card fetched an unbelievable $4.026 million at Heritage’s Fall Sports Catalog Auction on Friday. The 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card was issued back when Ruth was a 19-year-old minor league pitcher in Baltimore — and fewer than a dozen are … Read more
Marine scientists may learn more about the “rarest whale” in the world after a spade-toothed whale washed up on an Otago beach in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the 16-foot beaked whale was discovered near Taiari Mouth on July 4. Marine mammal experts believe the body is that of a … Read more
One of the world’s most unusually colored dolphins was discovered in Australia. Speckles, a patchy black-and-white bottlenose dolphin, stunned researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast, who were on Hervey Bay, a Whale Heritage Site on the coast of Queensland. “It was near the end of the day, we were about to head in … Read more