"The seal will have a better chance of guessing a fish's escape direction if it can tell the difference between the two vortex rings," says Wolf Hanke. To do this, the seals' whiskers would need to ...

Watch the moment a huge blaze in Utah turned into a gigantic fire vortex on Saturday (12 July). Footage captured by a firefighter shows the unusual weather phenomenon which the US Forest Service ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire tornado ...

Life beneath the waves can be a game of cat and mouse. Seals pursue swimming fish by following the tell-tale wakes and spinning vortices they leave behind, sensing the faint swirls with their ...