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Sea Ice Barriers Shaped Bowhead Whale Recovery Across Arctic Stocks
Apr 28, 2026 (SPX)
The research team analysed historical logbooks from more than 700 whaling voyages, reconstructing daily positions and hunting successes across the Arctic. "We f...
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal How Vortex Rings Drive Dolphin Propulsion
Apr 27, 2026 (SPX)
The findings, published in Physical Review Fluids, show that when a dolphin flaps its tail up and down, the motion pushes water backward and produces a turbulen...
Neural Network Trained on a Single Call Detects Blue Whale Songs Across Ocean Basins
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The work adapts a speech-detection neural network architecture to the problem of marine bioacoustic monitoring. Rather than relying on thousands of labeled whal...
Canada's Marineland gets 'conditional approval' to sell whales to US
Jan 26, 2026 (AFP)
Marineland, a once lucrative tourist attraction near Niagara Falls, has said it is in deep financial trouble, cannot afford to care for the whales, and will be ...
Tapping into whale talk
Dec 15, 2025 (SPX)
As part of the nonprofit Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), an ambitious, multi-institutional endeavor to discern the language of sperm whales, eng...
Italy to open Europe's first marine sanctuary for dolphins
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
"We must develop a new model for managing dolphins in a natural but supervised environment," Carmelo Fanizza, head of the San Paolo Dolphin Refuge, told AFP. Lo...
Canada's captive whales face euthanasia threat and uncertain future
Nov 26, 2025 (AFP)
The reportedly bankrupt former tourist attraction is closed to visitors, so the whales circle their decaying pools, while the park's owners -- who issued a shoc...
Lithuania bids to save Baltic seals as ice sheets recede
Jul 11, 2025 (AFP)
The seals have been nurtured at a rehabilitation centre in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda. Survival rates for cubs in the wild can be as low as five percent, a...
Killer whales spotted grooming each other with seaweed
Jun 23, 2025 (AFP)
Humans are far from being the only member of the animal kingdom that has mastered using tools. Chimpanzees fashion sticks to fish for termites, crows create hoo...
Climate change, human activity behind mass deaths of rare seals: Kazakhstan
Jun 13, 2025 (AFP)
Around 2,200 Caspian Seals -- the only mammals that live in the Caspian Sea -- have washed up dead on the shores of Kazakhstan since November 2024. Following te...
Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
Aerial footage showed the whale swimming south of Sydney Harbour trailing a rope attached to a floating buoy. "It makes it more difficult for the whale to dive,...
6 gray whales found dead in a week in San Francisco Bay
May 30, 2025 (UPI)
According to a joint Wednesday statement from the California Academy of Sciences and The Marine Mammal Center, the most recent gray whale was found on Wednesday...
NASA Data Helps Map Tiny Plankton That Feed Giant Right Whales
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
For decades, tracking the tiny plankton meant sending research vessels out in the ocean, towing nets and counting samples by hand. Now, scientists are looking f...
Animal rights activists denounce Icelandic whaling plans
May 01, 2025 (AFP)
Iceland is one of only three countries that still allows commercial whale hunting, along with Norway and Japan. It issued licenses in December to two whaling co...
Economic turmoil extends Iceland whaling halt
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
Iceland, Norway, and Japan are the only countries still to allow commercial whaling, a practice widely condemned by animal rights groups. "Hvalur hf. intends to...
Spain marine park defends facilities after France orca transfer blocked
Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)
France has been struggling to find a home for Wikie, 24, and her 11-year-old calf Keijo after a French Riviera marine park, Marineland, closed down over a law b...
Orcas, dolphins stuck in closed French marine park
Apr 10, 2025 (AFP)
A 2021 French animal welfare law and falling attendances forced the Marineland park in Antibes to close this year after more than 50 years of operation. Under t...
France struggles to find new home for two orcas after park closes
Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)
Founded in the city of Antibes in 1970, Marineland closed to the public in January following a drop in attendance and a 2021 law banning orca and dolphin perfor...
Rangers to euthanise 90 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was found stranded Tuesday evening on an isolated beach in Australia's southern island of Tasman...
Scores of dying dolphins wash ashore beach in Somalia
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
Locals said at least 100 were stranded on Thursday afternoon on a stretch between the Bossaso port and Mareero beach in the northern Puntland region. "The minis...
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