The dancers, joined by the Stacksteads Band, set off from the Old Travellers Rest in Britannia just after 9am before following their seven‑mile route through Bacup and Stacksteads to finish at the Glen Service Station in Waterfoot.
This year, the team dedicated their efforts to raising funds for ANDYSMANCLUB, a men’s mental health charity that offers free peer‑to‑peer support groups across the UK.
A message on the group’s website said: “We’re incredibly proud to support ANDYSMANCLUB this year. The message that it’s okay for men to talk about their mental health is such an important one, and we’re glad to play our part by helping raise awareness.”
Video by Phil Taylor shows the dancers performing at a man’s window in Stacksteads
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Despite the drizzle, locals and visitors lined the streets to cheer as the dancers made their way through town to the sound of drums and clogs.
Among the onlookers were Anne and Graham Ireland, both from Bacup, who have watched the event for decades.
Anne said: “We come to it every year, we live in Bacup. We enjoy coming to it. My dad was in it for 26 years.
The dancers in Irwell Terrace, Bacup (Image: NQ)
“It’s silly, the controversy. They’ve done it for 150 years and it’s only recently there’s been any controversy. It’s a good event that brings the community out.”
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The Coconutters’ website describes the event as “a magical day filled with pride, cheer and laughter” that draws supporters from across the region to celebrate a piece of Lancashire history dating back to the 19th century, when Cornish tin miners are thought to have brought the dance to Rossendale.
Another spectator, Tom Carver, said: “You can’t help but get swept up in it – the music, the energy, the sense of tradition. Whatever people think about it, there’s no denying it’s part of Bacup’s identity.”
The troupe’s trademark blackened faces have, however, drawn criticism in recent years, with some saying the look is racially insensitive.
The dancers made several stops along the 7-mile route (Image: NQ)
The Britannia men maintain that the colouring stems from their 19th‑century mining roots, when soot was used to disguise the dancers’ faces, and that it now forms part of the costume representing “Moorish pirates.”
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The group left the country’s main Morris organisation in 2020 after it urged dance teams to drop full-face black makeup.
The dancers says the focus of the day remains on charity, community, and keeping one of Lancashire’s enduring traditions alive for another generation.
Here’s what the stars have in store for your day (Picture: Metro.co.uk)
After an electric shift as Uranus enters Gemini, the atmosphere is buzzing with fresh ideas and a restless urge to try something new.
But with the Moon moving into Virgo and the Sun still in steadfast Taurus, practicality and clarity are key.
All in all, it’s a day for sorting, refining, and grounding inspiration into action.
Ahead, you’ll find all star signs’ horoscopes for today: Sunday April 26, 2026.
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Aries
March 21 to April 20
Uranus entering Gemini for the long haul inspires a lively chapter lasting until 2033, when your mind becomes a lightning rod for bright ideas. Conversations sizzle, technology fascinates, and interest leads you down captivating paths. Expect sudden insights, unusual learning opportunities, and connections with people who think differently. Do stay flexible!
Get ready for an active financial adventure lasting for around seven years. Your sense of value, income, and personal talents enters a period of experimentation and clever reinvention. Expect surprising opportunities involving technology, communication, or learning new skills. Money may arrive through unusual channels, or through ideas you once considered hobbies.
Uranus arrives in your sign and begins an electrifying era lasting until 2033. Think of it as a long cosmic brainstorming session with lots of surprises. Your identity, style, and outlook can evolve in novel ways. You may experiment with new interests, technologies, friendships, or ideas. Change comes swiftly, yet it’s liberating. It’s time to be unapologetically yourself.
An engaging chapter begins that lasts for seven years or so. It may feel like an electric current flowing through your inner world. Old worries, habits, or secret stories may shift, often through deeper understandings or unusual dreams. Uranus’s presence could also stir memories, that have been deeply seated within you. But look to embrace not avoid these, Cancer.
A fresh cycle begins in earnest and affects your social world, which might feel like a social experiment at times. Friendships shift, new alliances appear, and interesting people may enter your orbit. Uranus moving into Gemini over the coming year’s thrives on cooperation and creativity. Your leadership qualities shine brightest when you welcome new viewpoints.
Uranus entering Gemini begins a surprising career chapter lasting until 2033. Think of it as a possibility to improve your professional mindset. Roles, ambitions, or key goals may change in unanticipated ways. Technology, communication, and ingenious ideas become powerful tools. A path you never considered might look intriguing, so stay on board and learn to adapt.
Cosmic messages for Cosmic messages for Virgo today
Libra
September 24 to October 23
You’re stepping into a zesty chapter that lasts for the next seven years with Uranus’s help. Travel, learning, and expansive new ideas beckon. You’ll explore unfamiliar subjects, cultures, or philosophies that stretch perspectives. Conversations become doorways to discovery. You will encounter opportunities around teaching, writing, or sharing knowledge.
Get ready for a life-changing financial and emotional chapter for seven years. Shared resources, investments, and deep commitments may evolve in new way, a time of change around trust and power issues. Fresh opportunities can influence partnerships, money, or support systems. Ready for a major shift? It could become an empowering breakthrough.
As Uranus enters Gemini, prepare for an interesting partnership adventure lasting for many years. Relationships, collaborations, and agreements may evolve in surprising ways. New people may enter your orbit with unusual ideas and energising outlooks. Long-standing relationships might reinvent themselves – if you embrace new options and honest dialogue.
Prepare to refresh the gears of your daily life. Work routines, habits, and health patterns may evolve in clever and charming ways. New technologies, skills, or working methods might change how you organise your time. Uranus moving into Gemini means experimentation is better than a fixed schedule. Small changes lead to big improvements in work and wellbeing.
Uranus moves into Gemini and sparks a creative renaissance that lasts for seven years. Inspiration arrives like lightning from all kinds of places. Hobbies, romance, artistic projects, and playful adventures all gain a lively twist. Expect unusual ideas, smart collaborations, and bursts of enthusiasm. Your natural thirst and appreciation of originality will be amplified.
Your living space, family dynamics, or feeling of belonging may evolve in fresh and interesting ways. Moves, renovations, unusual housemates, or new ways of working from home may show up. As Uranus enters Gemini, it rewards flexibility, inventive thinking, and refreshing changes. But this planet will also push you to release what holds you back.
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US President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House correspondents’ dinner after gunshots were heard at the security incident, with Trump confirming the gunman has been ‘apprehended’
President Donald Trump was whisked away from the White House correspondents’ dinner after gunshots rang out at the event.
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The US President was attending the annual gathering on Saturday, April 25 when the disturbance erupted.
Secret service agents swiftly moved in and escorted the president to safety, shouting “stay down, stay down” as loud bangs echoed through the venue.
Several other senior officials were also hurriedly removed from the building while attendees ducked for cover.
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Pandemonium broke out inside the ballroom as guests scrambled to take shelter, reports the Daily Star.
A security official present at the event confirmed that between seven and eight shots were fired.
Trump has since posted an update on Truth Social, confirming that the gunman has been ‘apprehended’.
He said: “Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely.
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“The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we “LET THE SHOW GO ON” but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement.
“They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again.”
Ryanair’s new check-in and bag drop policy comes into effect in November
Fiona Callingham Lifestyle writer
01:44, 26 Apr 2026
Ryanair passengers can expect to see a significant change later this year. The budget airline is planning to extend the window in which travellers can check in their luggage ahead of a flight.
On its website, the airline stated the move could give passengers “more time” to clear security, helping to ensure fewer travellers miss their departures. The change takes effect from Tuesday, November 10 and will mean that check-in and bag drop services across all its airports will close 60 minutes before scheduled departure. Previously, the time allowance was 40 minutes.
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Ryanair CMO, Dara Brady, said: “From Tues 10 Nov next, Ryanair customers will see airport check-in and bag drops close 60 minutes before scheduled departure, instead of today’s 40 minutes.
“This will allow these 20 per cent of our customers (who check in a bag) more time to clear through airport security and passport queues, and get to their departure gate on-time, especially during busy travel periods when some of these airport queues can be longer.”
This follows Ryanair’s rollout of additional self-service bag-drop kiosks throughout its network, with over 95 per cent of airports equipped with these machines by October.
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Fully integrated with the Ryanair app, the self-service kiosks allow passengers to check in luggage and print bag tags, which the airline claims accelerates the bag-drop process and reduces waiting times.
Brady continued: “We are also installing self-service kiosks at over 95 per cent of Ryanair airports before October.
“This means a quicker bag-drop service, less queuing at airport desks, and an even more punctual service for the 20 per cent of our customers who still wish to check-in a bag, while the 80 per cent (who don’t check-in a bag) will be unaffected by this small 20 minute change, as they will continue to check-in online before they arrive at the departure airport and they go straight through airport security to their departure gate.”
Martin Odegaard lost possession on the opening salvo, before Eze dragged his shot wide with the second. On the third attempt, Odegaard and Martin Zubimendi ran over to offer their services, but Noni Madueke bypassed them both to play in Havertz, who teed up Eze, and the £60million man’s first-time strike curled away from a diving Nick Pope, and Arsenal were one to the good.
Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, from Essex, was injured in Argyll Street, Soho, at around 4.30am on Sunday April 19 and was pronounced dead on Saturday.
Former X Factor finalist Gabrielle Carrington, 29, appeared in court on Tuesday accused of trying to kill Ms Zakrzewska, a TikTok and Instagram influencer known by the name of Klaudiaglam, outside the Inca nightclub.
The attempted murder charge will be increased to murder after Ms Zakrzewska’s death, the Metropolitan Police said on Saturday.
Carrington, of Broadfield Road, Manchester, is also accused of dangerous driving, being nearly twice the drink-drive limit and causing injuries to two other people – a third woman and a security guard – who were also hit by her Mercedes.
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A court sketch of Gabrielle Carrington (Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA)
A 58-year-old man suffered life-changing injuries after being hit by the car.
She made it to the X Factor live finals in 2013 as one of the three members of Miss Dynamix and now has more than 365,000 followers on Instagram under the handle RIELLEUK.
Carrington – described in court as “social media influencer” who makes regular trips to the United Arab Emirates – made a heart sign with her hands towards friends and family in the packed public gallery as she was led out of the dock and back to the cells.
She did not enter any pleas during the hearing and will next appear at the Old Bailey on May 19.
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Family and friends of Ms Zakrzewska also attended the court hearing.
Nearly £18,000 had been crowdfunded for Ms Zakrzewska’s treatment and her family’s legal fees.
The GoFundMe, said to be set up by her mother, said: “If at any time things take a turn for the worst, additional funds will go towards funeral costs and continuous support for the family.”
Her mother, Kinga, said on the page: “Those who know me understand how much I love my daughter and what a special bond we have, and I cannot give up on my baby girl.”
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She added: “Anyone who knew my gorgeous daughter knows how truly wonderful she is. She has touched so many people with her pure heart and kindness, and she deserves every chance to keep fighting.”
Footage of the incident circulating online shows a woman getting into a black car before it surges forward, striking Ms Zakrzewska who goes under the vehicle.
Detective Chief Inspector Alison Foxwell, who is leading the investigation, said: “We would like to express our deepest sympathies to Klaudia’s family and friends in light of this tragic update.
“Our thoughts are also with everyone impacted by this incident.
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“We recognise that this case has generated significant interest and discussion on social media; however, we would urge the public to refrain from further speculation.”
She added: “We also ask that people do not share graphic footage out of respect for Klaudia’s loved ones and for those who have been injured.
“The circulation of such material could also undermine our ongoing criminal investigation and potentially prejudice future court proceedings.”
The Middlesbrough business, 4thewkend/Infused 2 Go – who work in the same building in an industrial kitchen – were handed the rating, meaning major improvement is necessary, as part of an inspection on March 2, 2026.
The two eateries offer pizzas, pastas, burgers, kebabs, parmos and much more.
A spokesperson said that there had been an “issue with the bins” on the day that the food hygiene inspectors came, in that they hadn’t been emptied, along with a problem with the “extraction system”.
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It confirmed that the necessary repairs had been undertaken – it was now just a waiting game for a re-inspection.
The spokesperson said: “The things [the inspectors] asked us to improve we did – we did the next day.
“Literally, we closed that day when they noticed the fault, I was away on holiday, I got a call from my manager who was on duty, I closed the store for the evening, and we basically made the changes that needed to be made.
“They came back and said it was okay for us to re-open – not that they closed us anyway.”
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A formal, paid for, re-visit is still required to get a higher rating, but businesses sometimes have to wait for up to three months for these to occur.
The spokesperson said the situation was “frustrating” as the business has always had five stars up until this point.
He added: “I’d say to any customer, come down and look – we have an open kitchen where people can walk in and see where we are making the food.
“We keep our standards high – it was a lapse.”
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While the spokesperson didn’t want the “bad name” that comes with a low food hygiene rating, he also described the experience as a “learning curve” for staff on site.
Things have come a long way since Space Invaders (Coentor/Wikipedia)
From Space Invaders in the late 1970s to SSX Tricky in the early 2000s, a reader recounts his early history with video games and how being in the army didn’t stop him playing.
There’s been a lot of reminiscing on these pages lately and I thought I would join in. As I’m 54, I have seen a lot of things in the history of gaming, so I am just going to go through some of the memorable moments and with luck bring a few sage nods and the odd smile.
In the late 70s my dad used to run the local football club bar. On a Friday night, as a young whippersnapper, I used to go with him and help bottle up, ready for service that night, before my Mum came and picked me up. I remember going in one Friday and there was this shiny new cabinet between the jukebox and the fruit machine. Emblazoned on the front was Space Invaders. I had heard of this but had never seen one in real life.
As we were getting things ready, Dad asked me to switch it on. I just remember watching it go through the boot sequence and going in to demo mode. I was awestruck. Dad had the keys and opened it up and put a few credits in for me. I was rubbish, the credits were gone in seconds, but a love of video games was born.
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The early eighties, one Christmas my parents got my sisters and me an Acorn Electron. Their thinking being that it was like the ones in school, and we could learn from it. It was all hooked up to a black and white portable TV. Mum and Dad had bought some learning to program books and such like, but we wanted games!
We didn’t have a huge collection but the ones we played were played to death. Snapper, a Pac-Man clone, Danger UXB – I can only remember its name, not what it was about. And of course, Chuckie Egg. On a Sunday I was allowed to connect to the big television and play in colour! What a revelation to see the yellow bird jump around the screen.
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By the early nineties I was in the British Army and serving in Germany, and it was the time of the Amiga. I didn’t own one at this point, but my roommate Norm Fowler did. Two games will always remind me of those times. Speedball 2 and the greatest football game ever made, Sensible Soccer! I wouldn’t even like attempt to put a time on how much this was played.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that it would be loaded up at 5pm and not switched off until gone midnight. I think all the single lads in the block were involved in leagues or cup competitions. Between matches you’d head off to NAAFI for a few pints, come back and keep playing.
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The big debate was which joystick was best? There were only two contenders. The Competition Pro or the Quickshot. My personal favourite was the Quickshot. I don’t know how many of them I went through, but they took some serious abuse from doing the big punt downfield and then throwing it left or right for aftertouch. You just can’t recreate that goal with a controller.
Finally, the mid to late nineties. I’m still in the Army but I’m serving a tour of Bosnia. At this point, Bosnia was pretty quiet, the war was over and things were pretty boring. I took a PlayStation 2 with me in my luxury items box. I didn’t have a TV but if my memory serves me correctly, me and my good buddy Stretch Armstrong went halfers on one. A big old CRT thing.
We had a lot of games between us but two games that jump out were Destruction Derby 2 and SSX Tricky. We literally played that PlayStation to death. One day it just gave up reading discs. The unit I was attached to had an electronics troop so I sent it down there with a few packets of chocolate Hobnobs to see if they could fix it.
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Unfortunately, it was unrepairable as we had worn out the ribbon on the CD drive! I seem to recall we wrote a bit of a begging letter to one of the PlayStation magazines, seeing if they could ‘help’ us out but we never got anything.
There you go, a few memories from my gaming life.
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Marcus Rashford has faced scrutiny over his future but the Manchester United loanee issued the perfect response as he netted in Barcelona’s win over Getafe.
Manchester United loanee Marcus Rashford found the back of the net for Barcelona in another week dominated by talk surrounding his future. The England international scored the second goal in their 2-0 win over Getafe as they capitalised on Real Madrid’s slip-up to 11 points clear.
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Reports this week have suggested that Barcelona won’t exercise Rashford’s buyout clause, which would seal a permanent move to Catalonia. It has been said that Hansi Flick’s side have U-turned on their decision to trigger the option, reportedly around £26million, having failed to negotiate a deal to sign him permanently from United.
Speculation, namely from SPORT, suggests that sporting director Deco and Flick have reached an agreement that they are unwilling to pay the transfer fee or wages with the funds described as ‘too high’.
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Fermin Lopez broke the deadlock at the Estadio Coliseum on the stroke of half-time and Rashford rubber-stamped the points 16 minutes from time.
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It was a trademark Rashford goal as he utilised his blistering pace to latch onto a long ball over the top with Getafe having committed men forward. The attacker drove forward and held off two defenders before drilling beyond the goalkeeper.
Barcelona now have a double-digit lead at the summit of Spanish football with only 15 points to play for. They can end their top-flight rivals’ aspirations of a late surge to hijack the La Liga procession when Real Madrid visit the Camp Nou on May 10.
Flick hailed the United loanee as he put into context just how important the Englishman’s contribution, and 13th goal of the season, was.
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He said: “Marcus came on in the second half and he used the space they give us. We spoke about this at half time.
“I am happy for the team, for us and also for him that he scored this goal because it was so important for him and also for us.
“We [only] celebrate the victory. It’s different. I said to the team before the game, we only focus on the day to day, on our job, what we have to do.
“When we play like this, I am really happy. I appreciate a lot what we do with the ball, but also against the ball. It’s not easy here, but today was nearly perfect.
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“[The title] is not done. We have five games more and we focus only on the next game. We will celebrate when it’s time, not now.”
Meanwhile, at Old Trafford, uncertainty still looms with Michael Carrick’s future undecided as United have to wait until Monday to bolster their European aspirations.
Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Crystal Palace meant that they moved level on points with United but Carrick’s side remain above their North West rivals due to having scored more goals.
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Sky has upgraded its Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle to now include HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, discovery+ and Hayu, as well as 135 channels and full Sky coverage of the Premier League and EFL.
Sky broadcasts more than 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more with at least 215 live from the top flight alongside Formula 1, darts and golf.
As the Earth shifts to climates not seen for several hundred thousand years, we may need to look at ancient environments for clues about what could happen next.
Our new study of two whale fossils, with preserved fragments of shark teeth, suggests the modern descendants of these animals could once again roam the southern region of the North Sea, between the UK, Belgium and Denmark. Climate change may recreate the conditions that allowed the ancestors of great white sharks to hunt in these waters.
If you want information about how animals and other organisms might respond to the kind of climate changes our planet is experiencing right now, you need evidence of former responses to such changes.
Palaeoecology, the study of the interactions between organisms in the deep past, has been coopted in the service of conservation science for some years now.
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One example of a past seascape which may tell us important information is that of the southern part of the North Sea, which was occupied a few million years ago by large marine animals. In modern times, the area has had a relatively low diversity in its wildlife.
But about 4-5 million years ago the North Sea was home to several large shark species, including the now locally extinct bluntnose sixgill shark and a relative of the modern great white shark. The Greenland shark used to live in this region, as well as tiny right whales, a relative of the beluga whale, and rorqual baleen whales. It was also home to extinct dolphins, such as Pliodelphis doelensis which was about the size of a common dolphin, plus porpoises and several seal species. Many of these animals, like all the cetaceans and seals, and some of the sharks, are now extinct. Others, including many other sharks, have since moved to distant oceans.
It appears that there was large-scale turnover of cetacean species in the southern North Sea during the ice age of the Pliocene-Pleistocene epoch, with the extinctions of most small baleen whales and the departure of other cetacean families (such as that of the beluga whale). This turnover may well have been responsible for the disappearance of the large sharks including the great white relatives and the bluntnose sixgill sharks, that were feeding on the smaller whales, from the North Sea.
Occasionally, the fossil record provides a glimpse of the past relationships between species. This can help scientists better understand these food webs and how ancient ecosystems worked.
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Shark bite marks on fossil marine mammal bones are relatively common, revealing intervals of time when two animals interacted. However, it is often difficult to identify the predator species. Much more rarely, bite marks come with fossilised tooth fragments. This is what we found in two cetacean skulls from the Early Pliocene (approximately 5-4 million years ago) of the North Sea.
Detail of some shark bite marks on the skull of the extinct right whale. The lower photo shows a bite made by the bluntnose sixgill shark, with a tooth tip deeply embedded in the bone. Olivier Lambert (RBINS)., CC BY-NC-ND
The first of these two skulls belonged to a diminutive extinct right whale which was found by father and son fossil enthusiasts (Robert and John Stewart – coauthor of this piece) in the mid-1980s in the docks in Antwerp, Belgium. Some 40 or so years later the skull was donated to the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels where it was identified by one of us (Olivier Lambert) as one of only two fossil specimens of Balaenella brachyrhynus, a tiny right whale species only known from the North Sea.
Further examination revealed bite marks on the top of the skull and in one such mark there was a tooth fragment of a shark. In our study, with the help of the shark specialist Frederik Mollen, the tooth tip was identified using microCT scanning as belonging to part of a lower tooth of a bluntnose sixgill shark Hexanchus griseus, which today is common in the Mediterranean Sea. The position of the bites makes it likely that the whale was scavenged as it lay drifting belly-up.
The second skull, from a close relative of the extinct beluga whale Casatia thermophila was discovered in the early 1980s. It was found during the excavation of a new dock in the Port of Antwerp by another father and son team – Paul Gigase, a pathologist by profession, and his son Pierre.
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In this case the whale, which also had bite marks with the tip of a shark tooth embedded, may have been attacked by an extinct mako shark, a relative of today’s great white shark. It appears that the shark was attempting to separate the whale’s head from the rest of the body and focusing on the fat-rich melon, a mass of tissue involved in echolocation on the top of the animal’s head.
Shark bite marks targeting the fat-rich melon. The skull on the lower part of the illustration is of a modern beluga whale. Olivier Lambert (RBINS)., CC BY-NC-ND
These fossils represent direct evidence that relatives of sharks today fed on these whales. Even if the fossil evidence is limited to two pairs of animals, they are tangible examples of such behaviour.
The ongoing biodiversity crisis is directly related to climate change, and has (or will have) an impact on the distribution of marine mammals. Global warming is likely to affect shallow seas in particular. The southern part of the North Sea is not large or deep enough for modern baleen whales, which are larger than their ancestors and live in the North Atlantic, like the modern right whale, the humpback and fin whales. But warming seas could attract dolphins and seals, and in turn great white sharks or other large marine predators.
In the North Sea, scientists have already observed short-term changes in the distribution of porpoises and seals. New seal colonies have established along the coast of the southern North Sea and there have been abrupt fluctuations in the number of porpoises stranded yearly on Belgian beaches.
The fossilised behaviour of the disappeared whales and sharks emphasise that all is change in the ecology of the North Sea.
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