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New Fossils Suggest Whales And Hippos Are Close Kin
September 20, 2001 — Partial skeletons of ancient whales found in Pakistan last year resolve a longstanding controversy over the origin of whales, confirming that the giant sea creatures evolved from early ancestors of ... > full story -
Whale Of A Puget Sound Problem Lures University Of Washington Researchers
August 29, 2001 — As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound's orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to ... > full story -
Dinosaurs Grew Rapidly, Say Florida State University Researchers
July 30, 2001 — Dinosaurs grew more rapidly than their living reptilian relatives asserts FSU evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Gregory Erickson in an article to be published Thursday in Nature magazine. ... > full story -
Study To Assess Risk Factors Of Vessel Collisions With Endangered Northern Right Whales
July 30, 2001 — Scientists and engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their colleagues will use a new digital recording tag to study and assess the risk factors of vessel collisions with ... > full story -
Sperm Whales Drawn To Waters Off Mississippi River Delta
May 25, 2001 — Researchers have found that endangered sperm whales frequent the deeper waters off the Mississippi Delta. Scientists estimate that at least 530 sperm whales can be found in the northeastern Gulf of ... > full story -
Speaking Of Sperm Whales
March 8, 2001 — In the Gulf of Mexico, the great sperm whales of Moby Dick fame, (Physeter macrocephalus), are being silently tracked. Navy's former "silent runners" - quiet ships originally designed to ... > full story -
Researchers Trace Toxins From Algal Blooms Through The Marine Food Web In Monterey Bay
January 11, 2001 — Researchers studying a bloom of toxic algae in Monterey Bay last summer found the algal toxin domoic acid in anchovies, sardines, and krill, all key species in the marine food web. Harvesting of ... > full story -
With Help From The Office Of Naval Research, A Right Whale Pied "Piper" Shows The Way To Recovery For This Highly Endangered Species
December 28, 2000 — Thanks to new technology sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, for the first time ever, a female Northern Right Whale has been tracked every step of her journey between northern feeding grounds ... > full story -
How Do I Love Whales? Let Me Count The Ways
December 12, 2000 — Insomniacs count sheep, bankers count money, umpires count balls and strikes. Bernd Wursig counts whales. The Texas A&M University at Galveston marine researcher is on a mission that, in ... > full story -
Scientists Launch The World's First Marine Life Census
November 20, 2000 — Blue whales may be the largest animals ever to have inhabited the Earth. An adult can grow to 80 feet long and weigh up to 300,000 pounds. Despite their enormous size, very little is known about the ... > full story
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