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One of world's rarest whales sighted off California coast
Phys.org· 18 hours ago"It was astonishing," said research ecologist Jan Roletto, who sighted the whale about three miles...
Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe notion took the internet by storm in 2023, with "Sink the rich" mugs...other marine biologists...
Critically endangered species spotted just north of San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle· 10 hours agoInstead, it was a critically endangered North Pacific right whale: one of the rarest whales in the...
Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not be speaking
Ars Technica· 7 days agoWhales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi...
Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort
Anchorage Daily News· 4 days agoScientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have...
Whales Have an Alphabet
New York Times· 5 days agoUntil the 1960s, it was uncertain whether whales made any sounds at all.
Are we closer to understanding what whales communicate to each other?
WCSH 6 Portland· 6 days agoThe project to decode the so-called "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" included members of the MIT...
Whales Have an Alphabet - The Daily | iHeart
iHeartRadio· 5 days agoEver since the discovery of whale songs almost 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher the lyrics. But sperm whales don’t produce the eerie melodies sung by ...
Seacoast Science Center hosts World Ocean Day event: Here's what's planned
Gannett via AOL· 7 days agoSeacoast Science Center Marine Science Fellowship students will showcase their research projects...
Camera tags capture social flexibility of Antarctic minke whales
Phys.org· 1 day agoData were collected in 2018 and 2019 around the Western Antarctic Peninsula as part of a research grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs to ...