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Science & Tech News tagged with whales

Blue Whale Beached -- Flipper to Be Amputated?
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, research, animals, study, ships )

Marty
- 33 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The apparent victim of a ship collision, a dead 70-foot (20-meter) blue whale (pictured) washed ashore in a forbidding northern California cove this week.
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Getting A Leg Up On Whale And Dolphin Evolution: New Comprehensive Analysis Sheds Light On The Origin Of Cetaceans
Science & Tech  (tags: Cetaceans, whales, dolphins, discovery, research, science )

Dee
- 63 days ago - sciencedaily.com
When the ancestors of living cetaceans--whales, dolphins and porpoises--first dipped their toes into water, a series of evolutionary changes were sparked that ultimately nestled these swimming mammals into the larger hoofed animal group.
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Census of Marine Life Maps An Ocean of Species
Science & Tech  (tags: ocean, sea, marine, life, species, microbes, blue, whales, sharks, tuna, squid, science, research, interesting, discovery, technology, investigation, environment )

Tom
- 116 days ago - latimes.com
The first comprehensive effort to identify and catalog every species in the world's oceans, from microbes to blue whales, is a year from completion. But early discoveries have profoundly altered understanding of life beneath the sea, senior scientists say
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Endangered Right Whales Appear To Be On The Rebound
Science & Tech  (tags: right-whales, endangered, species, whales, environment, animals, wildlife, science, tech, mammals, biology, oceans, world, news, u.s., discovery, research, study )

SirRobert
- 236 days ago - cnn.com
North Atlantic right whales birthed a record number of calves this year off the southeastern coast of the United States.
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Early Whales Gave Birth On Land, Fossil Find Reveals
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, ancient, research, world, science, whales, environment, discovery, ancient, investigation, research, interesting )

Thunderr
- 295 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea.The 47.5 million-year-old fossils,discovered in>>
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The Allure of TheSearch, Studying Orca Whales
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, whales, discovery, research, study )

Raven
- 304 days ago - npr.org
In order to study an animal, sometimes you have to put yourself in the place of the mind of that being. Reserachers in New Zealand discuss what it is like to be able to study Killer whales in the Wild, and the Allure of draws them to the Orcas.
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Beaked Whales , A Myserious Deep Water Species
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, wildlife, habitat, environment, extinction, research, science )

Raven
- 348 days ago - physorg.com
Recent studies have shown that the beaks of Beaked Whales which are thought to be competition between males, actually evolved thorugh Sexual Selection. Very little is known about these mysterious beings of the deep
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Update on Cascadia Reserarch in Hawaii
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, wildlife, endangered, protection, research, Gizmos, habitat )

Raven
- 348 days ago - cascadiaresearch.org
Cascadia Institute is a Marine Mammal Research group based out of Olymipia Washington.. I had a class with one of the researchers who studies Gray Whales during my Marine Naturalist trianing. Currently they are in Hawaii studying movement patterns o
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Narwhals More at Risk to Arctic Warming Than Polar Bears
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, environment, whales, global warming, ocean )

Dee
- 579 days ago - usatoday.com
WASHINGTON -- The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
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Prehistoric Cultures Were Hunting Whales At Least 3,000 Years Ago
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, hunting, prehistoric )

Ingrid
- 596 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Recent findings by a Russian-American research team suggest that prehistoric cultures were hunting whales at least 3,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than was previously known.
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Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, study, wild animals, wildlife, whales, habitat, investigation, environment, conservation )

J.
- 616 days ago - smithsonianmag.com
An Australian conservation group uses Hubble space telescope software to identify animals by their markings.
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Scientists Closer to Finding Impact of Noise on Whales
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, study, whales, impact of noise of whales, sonar, research )

Simone
- 662 days ago - inthenews.co.uk
Scientists say they are one step closer to understanding how underwater sounds impact on marine animals. The team from San Diego State University and the University of California have been using computer models to mimic the effects of underwater noise
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Judge Imposes Stricter Rules on Navy to Protect Marine Life
Science & Tech  (tags: dolphins, marine life, ocean, protection, protecting animals, whales, environment, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, Navy, California, federal judge )

Kristy
- 692 days ago - nytimes.com
A federal judge has ordered the Navy to adopt stringent new safeguards intended to improve protection of whales and dolphins during its sonar training exercises off Southern California.
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Closest Whale Cousin--A Fox-Size Deer?
Science & Tech  (tags: evolutionary biology, whales, deer, scientists )

Randy
- 707 days ago - sciam.com
Researchers split on closest evolutionary kin to whales and dolphins
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Science/Nature | Whale 'Missing Link' Discovered
Science & Tech  (tags: research, whales, fossils, missing link, discovery )

Sharon
- 708 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The whale is descended from a deer-like animal that lived 48 million years ago, according to fossil evidence.Remains found in the Kashmir region of India suggest the fox-sized mammal is the long-sought land-based ancestor of whales, dolphins & porpoises.
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