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Outcry as Faroe Islands slaughter 1,400 dolphins in a day
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
"There is no doubt that the Faroese whale hunts are a dramatic sight to people unfamiliar to the hunts and slaughter of mammals," a government spokesman told AF...
Do tourist boats stress out whales? Researchers find out
Sep 05, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers from Whale Wise, a marine conservation charity, are studying the whales' stress levels in their hormones. From their small sailboat, a drone lifts o...
Dutch probe mystery porpoise deaths
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Around 100 dead harbour porpoises have so far been spotted in the Wadden Islands, the scenic archipelago in the North Sea just off the Dutch coastline, animal w...
US announces new fishing regulations to save endangered whales
Aug 31, 2021 (AFP)
But conservation groups immediately criticized the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries for not going far enough to stop the species...
Male dolphins form biggest nonhuman social networks, study finds
Aug 30, 2021 (UPI)
Behavioral ecologist Richard Connor and a team of researchers analyzed data collected between 2001 and 2006 on 121 male dolphins as a part of the study. They fo...
Baby orca dies in New Zealand after fruitless search for mother
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
The killer whale, less than 2.5 metres (eight feet) long and believed to be four to six months old, became front-page news when he washed ashore near the capita...
Speeding ships killing endangered N. Atlantic right whales: study
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
The non-profit organization Oceana analyzed ship and boat speeds from 2017 to 2020 in speed zones established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra...
Foe to friend: Fishermen join fight to save endangered Pakistan dolphin
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
Identifiable by their saw-like beaks, Indus River dolphins once swam from the Himalayas to the Arabian sea, but now mostly cluster in a 180-kilometre (110-mile)...
Humpback whale found dead on beach in France
May 26, 2021 (AFP)
"As soon as we arrived, it was already dead," said Elodie Sene, a caretaker at an aquarium in the town of Grau-du-Roi. "I've never seen anything like this, it's...
Carcasses reveal movement, feeding patterns of Sowerby's beaked whales
May 25, 2021 (UPI)
The analysis, detailed Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science, showed Sowerby's beaked whales hold both short- and long-term habitat fidelity....
Young whale stranded in London's Thames is put down
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
The whale, measuring three to four metres (10-13 feet), was first spotted in southwest London on Sunday and was washed ashore at a set of gates controlling wate...
Some 170 endangered seals found dead on Russia's Caspian coast
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
"These are the dead animals that we saw, photographed and whose GPS coordinates we noted," said Viktor Nikiforov of the Moscow Marine Mammals research centre. I...
Lost in the Med: Pacific grey whale ventures far from home
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
The whale, some eight metres long (26 feet) and around 15 months old, had already been seen off Morocco in March, and then again in Italian waters, first near N...
Whale, dolphin blowholes developed differently, research reveals
Apr 28, 2021 (UPI)
Cetaceans, the group of marine mammals that includes whales and dolphins, evolved from land mammals. The earliest cetaceans had noses a lot like their land-base...
Secrets of The Whales are Spilled on the Screen in Epic James Cameron Directed Nat Geo Documentary
Apr 23, 2021 (SPX)
All he could remember was being told to blow out air on the way backup. The breath was tepid as the brain told him he would drown. But soon, the SCUBA gear perf...
A whale chorus reveals how climate change may be shifting migration
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The recordings gathered during the 2018-2019 winter in the freezing Arctic waters off Canada proved that a population of bowhead whales had skipped their usual ...
Scientists map enigmatic circle-swimming of whales, sharks, turtles, penguins
Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)
Using advanced animal-tracking technologies, scientists have managed to precisely measure the three-dimensional movement patterns of a range of marine species. ...
Dolphins adapt feeding patterns to survive coastal construction
Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, bottlenose dolphins move their feeding locations and shift the timing o...
Narwhal tusks offer insights into Arctic's changing climate, shifting biodiversity
Mar 11, 2021 (UPI)
The tusk of the narwhal is actually a canine tooth that extends from the upper jaw of male animals. Each year, as the tusk grows, the newest layer preserves asp...
Whales' cancer resistance 'in their genes'
Feb 24, 2021 (AFP)
A new study suggests that the reason is written in their genes. In general, when a creature has more cells in its body, they are expected to be more vulnerable ...
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