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Killer whales breathe just once between dives, study confirms

A new study has confirmed a long-held assumption: that orcas take just one breath between dives. The researchers used drone…

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Young whale’s journey highlights threats facing ocean animals

A young whale’s journey across the Mediterranean highlights the many threats facing ocean animals, researchers say. Scientists from Greenpeace and…

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Sperm whales may have their own ‘alphabet’

Sperm whales have their own unique cultures, accents, and potentially a phonetic alphabet. A team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial…

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Bowhead whales still harmed from whaling that ended a century ago

Bowheads feel the impacts of commercial whaling 100 years later Doc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling of bowheads ended about…

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Where have all the right whales gone?

Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right…

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Toothed whales traded chewing for echolocation to evolve

Dolphins and other toothed whales–or Odontocetes–use their heads to create sounds that help them communicate, navigate, and hunt in their…

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Entanglements of humpback whales in fish farms rare — and naivety could be to blame

The first study of humpback whale entanglements in B.C. aquaculture facilities in PLOS One found eight over 13 years, with…

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Killer whales use specialized hunting techniques to catch marine mammals in the open ocean

Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting…

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How crafty orca whales hunt near submarine canyons

A distinct subpopulation of orca whales appears to be using specialized hunting techniques to hunt the marine mammals that they…

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How AI is already helping scientists track threatened humpback whales : NPR

Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade. Martin…

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