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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A young whale’s journey across the Mediterranean highlights the many threats facing ocean animals, researchers say. Scientists from Greenpeace and…
Read More »Sperm whales have their own unique cultures, accents, and potentially a phonetic alphabet. A team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial…
Read More »Bowheads feel the impacts of commercial whaling 100 years later Doc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling of bowheads ended about…
Read More »Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right…
Read More »Dolphins and other toothed whales–or Odontocetes–use their heads to create sounds that help them communicate, navigate, and hunt in their…
Read More »The first study of humpback whale entanglements in B.C. aquaculture facilities in PLOS One found eight over 13 years, with…
Read More »Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting…
Read More »A distinct subpopulation of orca whales appears to be using specialized hunting techniques to hunt the marine mammals that they…
Read More »Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade. Martin…
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