July 20, 2023 — Female killer whales live up to ninety years in the wild, and most live an average of twenty-two years after menopause. Scientists have long wondered why humans and some whale species spend a ...
July 10, 2023 — Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right ...
July 6, 2023 — We humans can be a scary acquaintance for whales in the wild. This includes marine biologists tagging them with measuring devices to understand them better. These experiences can make whales behave ...
July 3, 2023 — Amazon river dolphins are under threat from fishing and proposed new dams and dredging, research ...
July 3, 2023 — Increasing opportunities for up-close encounters with sharks and other animals are making wildlife tourism one of the fastest growing tourism sectors -- leading ecology experts to venture to one of ...
June 28, 2023 — Using unoccupied aerial system, or drone, photographs, researchers are now able to determine the age-structure of free-ranging dolphin groups. This work will aid monitoring the health of dolphin ...
June 26, 2023 — Researchers estimate that gray whales feeding off the Oregon Coast consume up to 21 million microparticles per day, a finding informed in part by feces from the ...
June 5, 2023 — Do whales increase the removal of carbon from the atmosphere? Despite some hope that this would be the case, a new study has found the amount of potential carbon capture by whales is too little to ...
May 11, 2023 — In the autumn, when right whales swim towards the coasts of South Africa, they ought to be fat and stuffed full. But in recent years, they have become thinner because their food is disappearing with ...
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 ...
Apr. 21, 2023 — A new study has found that humpback whales will use sandy, shallow bay areas to 'roll' around in sandy substrates to remove dead skin cells on their return journeys south to cooler ...
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 ...
Mar. 20, 2023 — The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their ...
Mar. 20, 2023 — New research is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where whales are at greatest danger of entanglement in fishing gear on the Oregon ...
Mar. 13, 2023 — A new study of Antarctic minke whales reveals a minimum size limit for whales employing the highly efficient 'lunge-feeding' strategy that enabled the blue whale to become the largest ...
Mar. 3, 2023 — Toothed whales, such as dolphins, killer whales and sperm whales communicate and catch food exclusively with sound. Now researchers have for the first time found they evolved a new sound source in ...
Feb. 28, 2023 — Centuries-old whaling records show how southern right whales are altering their feeding ...
Feb. 28, 2023 — A new study of New Zealand blue whales' vocalizations indicates the whales are present year-round in the South Taranaki Bight and their behavior is influenced by environmental conditions in the ...
Feb. 28, 2023 — In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of this behaviour being described in ...
Feb. 22, 2023 — As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are staying north of the Bering Strait more frequently, a shift that could affect the long-term health of the bowhead population and impact the ...
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