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Dec. 12, 2023 A team of scientists had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale communication systems in an effort to develop intelligence ...
May 11, 2023 A new study has found humpback whales sing louder when the wind is noisy, but don't have the same reaction to boat ...
Jan. 24, 2024 New research revealed a daily pattern wherein humpback whales move their singing away from shore throughout the day and return to the nearshore in the ...
Sep. 23, 2021 A new study finds that that some large whale species (humpback, fin and minke whales) use the waters off New York and New Jersey as a supplemental feeding area feasting on two different types of prey ...
Jan. 31, 2022 In late March 2019, researchers performing annual whale and dolphin research surveys discovered the first ever record of killer whales hunting and killing an adult blue whale. Just two weeks later a ...
Jan. 23, 2023 Scientists show reduced krill supplies lead to fewer pregnancies in humpback whales -- a finding that could have major implications for industrial krill fishing. Data from Antarctica show more ...
Feb. 16, 2023 Male whales along Australia's eastern seaboard are giving up singing to attract a mate, switching instead to fighting their male ...
Sep. 1, 2021 These findings challenge the results of past studies that vocal variations in humpback whale songs provide information about a singer's reproductive fitness. Instead, the morphing appears to ...
July 25, 2022 Whale sharks are filter feeders and have long been observed eating krill at Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef. But when researchers analysed biopsy samples from whale sharks at the reef, they ...
Oct. 2, 2023 Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today’s surviving whales, new research ...