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Crossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change clues
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhy scientists are using a crossbow to study whales Inside the bodies of giant humpback whales are...
Whales help mitigate climate change by pooping carbon into the ocean and taking more with them when...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoResearchers investigate a humpback whale by boat and drone in the surface waters near the Western...
The secret lives of Antarctic whales: how to balance tourism and conservation on a bucket-list trip
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 year agoThere’s no quiet on earth so intense as the Antarctic on a clear morning. We’re in a sheltered bay...
Study explains mealtime for the minke whale, the ocean's littlest giant
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding...
The Blue Whale Is One of the Loudest Animals on Earth
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest animal that has ever lived. Gerard Soury /...
This tiny, 8-foot long whale swam off Egypt’s coast 41 million years ago
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTutcetus rayanensis swimming in the Tethys ocean of present-day Egypt, 41 million years ago, in an...
Once Facing Extinction, Massive Fin Whales Have Returned to Antarctic Waters
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter being driven to the brink of extinction, fin whales, the second-largest creatures on Earth,...
What do whales eat? Inside the diet of blue, humpback, sperm and killer whales.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWhales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest...
Why helping whales to flourish can help fight climate change
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA North Atlantic right whale with a newborn calf is entangled in fishing rope near Cumberland...
Sound of Whale Song Signals Antarctic Blue Whales May Be Making a Comeback
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales,...