A groundbreaking examine is the primary to investigate the connection between group behaviors, group sort, group dynamics, and kinship of beluga whales in 10 places throughout the Arctic. Outcomes present that not solely do beluga whales recurrently work together with shut kin, together with shut maternal kin, additionally they regularly ...

Three years of 'well being check-ups' on Oregon's summer time resident grey whales exhibits a compelling relationship between whales' general physique situation and altering ocean situations that probably restricted availability of prey for the mammals.

Whales undertake a number of the longest migrations on earth, usually swimming many hundreds of miles, over many months, to breed within the tropics. The query is why? Scientists suggest that whales that forage in polar waters migrate to low latitudes to keep up wholesome pores and skin.

To find out whale being pregnant, researchers have relied on visible cues or hormone exams of blubber collected by way of darts, however the outcomes had been usually inconclusive. Analysis factors to a weak point of earlier testing and analysis strategies and offers a brand new hormone testing regime that ...

A year-round acoustic examine of marine mammals within the northern Bering Sea is offering scientists with a invaluable snapshot of an Arctic world already beneath drastic stress from local weather change.

Some 'canaries' are 50 ft lengthy, weigh 70 tons, and are nowhere close to a coal mine. However the extremely endangered North Atlantic proper whale is sending the identical form of message about disruptive change within the setting by quickly altering its use of necessary habitat areas off the New ...

USA Immediately stories a wave of protests have been deliberate from New York to California and Texas to oppose the president’s nationwide emergency declaration. Significantly, is there any group extra misnomered than MoveOn.org?  Based in 1998 to protest Invoice Clinton’s impeachment by the hands of the evil Republicans, they’ve ...

Researchers have examined the youngest-ever specimen of tylosaur ever discovered. Like orcas, mosasaurs may need used their bony noses to strike prey.

Greater than 40 years after the primary initiatives had been taken to ban using PCBs, the chemical pollution stay a lethal menace to animals on the prime of the meals chain. A brand new examine exhibits that the present concentrations of PCBs can result in the disappearance of half of ...

Scientists revealed the primary listening to exams on a wild inhabitants of wholesome marine mammals. The exams on beluga whales in Bristol Bay, AK, revealed that the whales have delicate listening to skills and the variety of animals that skilled in depth listening to losses was far lower than what ...