It’s one of several adaptations to aquatic life that involve gene loss. Stephen Fleischfresser reports. Source: Why don’t whales have saliva?
Scientists may have found a whale that is older than USA. The whale has been alive since 25 years before…
Study is first direct evidence in nonhuman animals of the “grandmother hypothesis” Source: Granny killer whales pass along wisdom—and extra…
Hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles flock to Ostional, Costa Rica, each year—but development and tourism may threaten…
New research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging people to focus on saving whales to reduce carbon. Source: Research…
For the first time ever, marine biologists have recorded the heart rate of a blue whale in the wild—the results…
Thanks to whaling protections put in place, the South Atlantic humpback whale population has rebounded to its former numbers from…
Every year, some 5.25 trillion new pieces of plastic debris are thrown into the ocean, much of which ends up…
Listen to examples of sounds from marine mammals and Earth from the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Source: Soundscape Listening…
We often think of culture as solely human. We think of our music, our clothes, our food, our languages. However,…
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