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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 ...
Mar. 29, 2023 A group of researchers discovered that the rhodopsin -- a protein in the eye that detects light -- of whale sharks has changed to efficiently detect blue light, which penetrates deep-sea water ...
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 ...
May 9, 2022 New research indicates that lethal collisions of whale sharks with large ships are vastly underestimated, and could be the reason why populations are ...
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 ...
Oct. 28, 2021 Genetic population connectivity study of the endangered whale shark in Pacific Panama provides important baseline data for conservation ...
Apr. 6, 2022 Current whale-protection policies in California rarely address the overlapping, compounding stressors facing whale ...
May 28, 2021 During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine biologists know ...
July 10, 2023 Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right ...