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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oct. 12, 2023 Dynamic and changing Arctic Ocean conditions have likely caused three major mortality events in the eastern North Pacific gray whale population since the ...
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 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 ...
Feb. 16, 2023 Male whales along Australia's eastern seaboard are giving up singing to attract a mate, switching instead to fighting their male ...