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32 of the loudest animals on Earth
LiveScience· 11 hours agoThe blue whale claims the title for not only being the largest animal in the natural world — it is also the loudest. It can emit calls — or long rumbling...
Japan is determined to keep hunting whales. And now it has a brand new ‘mothership’
CNN via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoWearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days...
Richard Ellis, 'poet laureate' of deep-sea creatures, dies at 86
Art Daily· 13 hours agoRichard Ellis at the American Museum of Natural History, in front of the life-size blue whale he helped build, in New York, on Aug. 3, 2012. Ellis, a polymath ...
One of the world’s rarest whales sighted off California coast
Anchorage Daily News· 6 days ago“It was astonishing,” said research ecologist Jan Roletto, who sighted the whale about three miles...
Richard Ellis, 86, Dies; Artist Whose Works Included a Museum’s Whale
New York Times· 5 days agoRichard Ellis, a polymath of marine life whose paintings, books and museum installations —...
Moses King held a special place in the hearts of Fayetteville children. Here’s why.
The Fayetteville Observer via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe 20-foot blue whale at Rowan Park, brought to Fayetteville from Wilmington decades ago, holds a...
Rare whale sighted off California coast
The Washington Times· 6 days agoScientists were thrilled to spot an endangered North Pacific right whale off the coast of Marin County last week. Research ecologist Jan Roletto...
Humble fern from New Caledonia boasts world's largest genome
Reuters via AOL· 3 days agoNew research shows that this fork fern species, called Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has a genome - all...
'Incredibly rare' animal spotted just north of San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days ago“We clearly saw the V-shaped blow, no dorsal fin, all black, very broad,” Roletto, the research...
Rare, endangered whale spotted off coast of Marin
KTVU· 7 days agoA critically endangered North Pacific right whale was spotted west of Point Reyes on Friday, experts say. A group that supports marine wildlife, called ACCESS (Applied California ...