Dolphin and Whale News

Posted September 11, 2006:

• Ocean Seep Mollusks May Share Evolutionary History With Other Deep-Sea Creatures

Posted June 23, 2006:

• Site Of Human-Dolphin Partnership Becomes Protected Area

Posted May 29, 2006:

• Ecologists Home In On How Sperm Whales Find Their Prey

Posted May 23, 2006:

• How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans

Posted May 17, 2006:

• Dolphins At Risk

Posted April 28, 2006:

• Navy Sonar Exercises May Have Played Role In Stranding Of Melon-Headed Whales In Hawaii

Posted April 11, 2006:

• Yale Researchers Find Environmental Toxins Disruptive To Hearing In Mammals

Posted March 22, 2006:

• Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own

Posted February 27, 2006:

• Devices Tease Out Individual Sounds From Underwater Racket

Posted February 21, 2006:

• Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Posted January 10, 2006:

• El Nino Events Affect Whale Breeding

Posted January 5, 2006:

• Diversity Of Marine Life In Gulf Of Maine Much Greater Than Previously Thought

Posted January 2, 2006:

• Research Tracks Whales By Listening To Sounds

Posted December 23, 2005:

• Scientists Solve Mystery Of The 'Unicorn' Whale

Posted December 14, 2005:

• Marine Biology Mystery Solved: Function Of 'Unicorn' Whale's 8-Foot Tooth Discovered

Posted October 7, 2005:

• Why A Whale Shark's Spots Could Help Save Its Skin

Posted September 22, 2005:

• NOAA Fisheries Service Rescues The Last Four Trained Dolphins Washed Into Mississippi Sound After Hurricane Katrina

Posted September 14, 2005:

• Secrets Of The Whale Riders: Crablike 'Whale Lice' Show How Endangered Cetaceans Evolved

Posted July 26, 2005:

• Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Study Says Population In Crisis

Posted July 23, 2005:

• FSU Scientist Warns North Atlantic Right Whale Facing Extinction

Posted July 10, 2005:

• NOAA Takes Steps To Reduce Ship Collisions With Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales

Posted June 22, 2005:

• Scientists Monitor Habitat Use By Rare North Pacific Right Whales In Bering Sea And Gulf Of Alaska

Posted May 28, 2005:

• Elephants Imitate Sounds As A Form Of Social Communication

Posted February 23, 2005:

• Advanced Technologies Reveal New Knowledge About The Lives And Deaths Of Whales
• Secrets Of Whales' Long-Distance Songs Are Being Unveiled
• New DNA Studies Verify Existence Of Three Right Whale Species

Posted February 13, 2005:

• Chemical Compounds Found In Whale Blubber Are From Natural Sources, Not Industrial Contamination

Posted February 5, 2005:

• UC Berkeley, French Scientists Find Missing Link Between The Whale And Its Closest Relative, The Hippo

Posted January 28, 2005:

• Reviewing Scientists Say Proposed Conservation Measures Unlikely To Help Whales

Posted January 11, 2005:

• Cumulative Sperm Whale Bone Damage And The Bends

Posted January 4, 2005:

• NOAA Team Plans Whale Disentanglement Attempt

Posted October 27, 2004:

• Emory Study Details Dolphin Brain Evolution For The First Time

Posted October 20, 2004:

• To Save Dolphin's Dorsal Fin Experts Combine Medical Technology And Teamwork

Posted September 16, 2004:

• South Dakota Tech Grad Student Finds Rare Whale

Posted August 16, 2004:

• Each White Whale Has Its Individual Voice

Posted August 12, 2004:

• Evolution Of Whale Hearing Unfolds In Fossil Record

Posted July 31, 2004:

• Whale Carcass Yields Bone-Devouring Worms

Posted July 27, 2004:

• Ocean Scientists Assess Impact Of Seismic Pulses In Effort To Protect Whales

Posted May 17, 2004:

• Scientists Discover Secret Of Dolphin Speed: How Dolphins Evolved To Fly Like Birds Under Water

Posted May 12, 2004:

• Mimicking Humpback Whale Flippers May Improve Airplane Wing Design

Posted November 20, 2003:

• Climate Linked To Reproduction Of Right Whales

Posted September 24, 2003:

• Collapse Of Seals, Sea Lions & Sea Otters In North Pacific Triggered By Overfishing Of Great Whales

Posted July 25, 2003:

• Whale Populations Are Too Low To Resume Commercial Hunting, Geneticists Find

Posted July 1, 2003:

• Men, Mammals, And Machines: Underwater Drone Works With Men And Dolphins

Posted May 20, 2003:

• Mercury In Packaged Whale Meat Across Japan May Be A Major Health Problem

Posted April 23, 2003:

• Whale Study Links Genetics And Reproductive Success; Researchers Compare Reproduction Rates In North Atlantic Whales With Genetic Variation

Posted April 11, 2003:

• Flipper As Rambo: Dolphins Can Be Great Naval Security Tools

Posted January 10, 2003:

• Endangered Northern Right Whales Exposed To Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Posted June 20, 2002:

• Humanity's Din In The Oceans Could Be Blocking Whales' Courtship Songs And Population Recovery

Posted May 9, 2002:

• Researchers Discover Clues To Whale Evolution

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