Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
21 to 30 of 312 stories
view headlines only
-
Sustainable Way to Make a Prized Fragrance Ingredient
December 19, 2012 — Large amounts of a substitute for one of the world's most treasured fragrance ingredients -- a substance that also has potential anti-cancer activity -- could be produced with a sustainable new ... > full story -
Dolphin Hearing System Component Found in Insects
December 13, 2012 — A hearing system component thought to be unique in toothed whales like dolphins has been discovered in insects, following research involving the University of ... > full story -
Pilot Whales Use Synchronized Swimming When They Sense Danger
November 23, 2012 — Scientists have observed the behavior of various groups of cetaceans including long-finned pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar and Cape Breton in Canada. These whales were found to use ... > full story -
Eating Right Key to Survival of Whales and Dolphins
November 21, 2012 — In the marine world, high-energy prey make for high-energy predators. And to survive, such marine predators need to sustain the right kind of high-energy diet. Not just any prey will do, suggests a ... > full story -
New Whale Shark Study Used Metabolomics to Help Understand Shark and Ray Health
November 16, 2012 — New research provides evidence that a suite of techniques called “metabolomics” can be used to determine the health status of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), the world’s largest ... > full story -
Fossils and Genes Brought Together to Piece Together Evolutionary History
November 7, 2012 — Scientists have reviewed recent studies that have used modern genetic techniques to shed light on fossils, and vice ... > full story -
World's Rarest Whale Seen for the First Time
November 5, 2012 — A whale that is almost unknown to science has been seen for the first time after two individuals -- a mother and her male calf -- were stranded and died on a New Zealand beach. A new report offers ... > full story -
Whale Racket: Sounding out How Loud the Oceans Were from Whale Vocalizing Prior to Industrial Whaling
October 23, 2012 — Concern is growing that human-generated noise in the ocean disrupts marine animals that rely on sound for communication and navigation. In the modern ocean, the background noise can be ten times ... > full story -
A Whale With a Distinctly Human-Like Voice
October 22, 2012 — For the first time, researchers have been able to show by acoustic analysis that whales -- or at least one very special white whale -- can imitate the voices of humans. That's a surprise, because ... > full story -
Bowhead Whales: Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Arctic Whale Mysteries
October 19, 2012 — Scientists have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern populations and archaeological sites used by indigenous Arctic hunters ... > full story
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,427
more 
