Sperm whales have their own unique cultures, accents, and potentially a phonetic alphabet. A team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial…
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Bowheads feel the impacts of commercial whaling 100 years later Doc White/Nature Picture Library/Alamy Commercial whaling of bowheads ended about…
Read More »Marine researchers have mapped the density of one of the most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right…
Read More »Dolphins and other toothed whales–or Odontocetes–use their heads to create sounds that help them communicate, navigate, and hunt in their…
Read More »The first study of humpback whale entanglements in B.C. aquaculture facilities in PLOS One found eight over 13 years, with…
Read More »Killer whales foraging in deep submarine canyons off the coast of California represent a distinct subpopulation that uses specialized hunting…
Read More »A distinct subpopulation of orca whales appears to be using specialized hunting techniques to hunt the marine mammals that they…
Read More »Humpback whales that spend their winters in Hawaii, like this mother and calf, have declined over the last decade. Martin…
Read More »Humpback whales were affected by a marine heatwave in the Pacific Ocean Nicola Ransome The number of humpback whales in…
Read More »The population of bowhead whales that migrates between the Bering and Beaufort Seas each year is a conservation success story,…
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