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Whales Entangled In Fishing Lines: What Can Be Done?
April 26, 2007 — Since 2002 there have been at least 21 reports of right whales entangled in fishing lines, and scar analyses indicates as many as 45-60 right whales become entangled each year. A sinking line can ... > full story -
Marine Scientists Monitor Longest Mammal Migration
April 10, 2007 — Marine scientists recently found that humpback whales migrate over 5,100 miles from Central America to their feeding grounds off Antarctica; a record distance undertaken by any ... > full story -
Some Bottlenose Dolphins Don't Coerce Females To Mate
April 3, 2007 — Mating strategies are straightforward in bottlenose dolphins, or are they? Much of the work carried on male-female relationships in that species to date show that males tend to coerce females who are ... > full story -
Tracking Sperm Whales And Jumbo Squid
March 8, 2007 — The sperm whale and its large prey, the jumbo squid, are among the deepest divers in the ocean, routinely reaching depths of 3,000 feet or more. Now, in a new study, a team of marine scientists ... > full story -
Blue Whales And Their Calls: Scientists Listen To Earth's Largest Mammals
February 27, 2007 — Using a variety of new approaches, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are forging a new understanding of the largest mammals on ... > full story -
Saving Endangered Whales At No Cost
January 8, 2007 — By comparing the productivity of lobster fishing operations in American and Canadian waters of the Gulf of Maine, researchers have identified ways in which cost-saving alterations in fishing ... > full story -
Expedition Observes Little Known Beaked Whales
December 23, 2006 — Whale watchers on board the research icebreaker Polarstern have made a remarkable cetaceans sighting: Four Arnoux's Beaked Whales (Berardius arnuxii), observed from the helicopter. The Arnoux's ... > full story -
Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Plight Of The Vaquita
December 9, 2006 — Research published in the academic journal Mammal Review has uncovered the missing link in the depleting population of the vaquita. With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest ... > full story -
Humpback Whales Have Brain Cells Also Found In Humans
November 27, 2006 — A new study compared a humpback whale brain with brains from several other cetacean species and found the presence of a certain type of neuron cell that is also found in humans. This suggests that ... > full story -
Beaked Whales Perform Extreme Dives To Hunt Deepwater Prey
October 19, 2006 — A study of 10 beaked whales of two poorly understood species shows their foraging dives are deeper and longer than those reported for any other air-breathing species. This extreme deep-diving ... > full story
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