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Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-Sea Creatures
September 11, 2006 — The unusual mollusks of oceanic cold seeps -- strange clams, mussels and sea snails that thrive in the sulfur and methane-rich environments -- are on average older than the marine mollusk community ... > full story -
Site Of Human-Dolphin Partnership Becomes Protected Area
June 23, 2006 — The government of Myanmar has established a protected area for, of all things, a partnership between fishermen and a small, gray beakless dolphin with a knack for herding fish into nets, according to ... > full story -
Ecologists Home In On How Sperm Whales Find Their Prey
May 29, 2006 — Ecologists have at last got a view of sperm whales' behaviour during their long, deep dives, thanks to the use of recently developed electronic "dtags." According to new research published in the ... > full story -
How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans
May 23, 2006 — When ancient whales finally parted company with the last remnants of their legs about 35 million years ago, a relatively sudden genetic event may have crowned an eons-long shrinking process. An ... > full story -
Dolphins At Risk
May 17, 2006 — Pile driving and industrial noise may adversely affect dolphin behaviour, communication and breeding, according to a scientific paper in CIWEM's Water and Environment ... > full story -
Navy Sonar Exercises May Have Played Role In Stranding Of Melon-Headed Whales In Hawaii
April 28, 2006 — The NOAA Fisheries Service released the final report today on the mysterious stranding event of melon-headed whales off the coast of Hawaii in July 2004. Although the exact cause of the stranding is ... > full story -
Yale Researchers Find Environmental Toxins Disruptive To Hearing In Mammals
April 11, 2006 — Yale School of Medicine researchers have new data showing chloride ions are critical to hearing in mammals, which builds on previous research showing a chemical used to keep barnacles off boats might ... > full story -
Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own
March 22, 2006 — Scientists have used the mathematics of information theory to confirm that the songs of humpback whales have a complex syntax containing the elements of ... > full story -
Devices Tease Out Individual Sounds From Underwater Racket
February 27, 2006 — While biologists sort out what levels of noise go unnoticed, are annoying or cause harm to marine mammals, physical oceanographer Jeff Nystuen is giving scientists and managers a way to sift through ... > full story -
Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
February 21, 2006 — Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the deep ... > full story
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