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Draw of rare whale shark hotspots revealed in new study
Jun 08, 2018 (UPI)
Though the endangered whale shark, the biggest fish in the world, travels long distances, young sharks congregate at just 20 locations across the globe. Until n...
Dolphins are being killed, used as bait in commercial fisheries
Jun 07, 2018 (UPI)
The problem of bycatch, non-targeted fish and marine mammals caught by commercial fishing operations, is a well-documented problem, but less attention is paid t...
Whale dies in Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags
Jun 02, 2018 (AFP)
Thailand is one of the world's largest consumers of plastic bags, which kill hundreds of marine creatures living near the country's popular beaches each year. T...
Japan whale hunt killed 122 pregnant minkes
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The four-month expedition in the Antarctic ended in March after the fleet killed 333 minke whales, according to a report submitted by Japanese authorities to th...
Blue whale sighted in Red Sea for first time: Egypt
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
It said on its Facebook page that Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy has instructed observation teams to track the whale and try to photograph it. The blue whale...
New study investigates dolphin liberation in Korea
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
An engineering student, affiliated with UNIST has recently carried out a scientific investigation on dolphin liberation in South Korea. The paper presents the o...
Whale lovers find paradise at Boston Harbor
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
The vast Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is one of the best whale-watching spots in the world, with a high concentration of humpback, sei and minke wh...
River dolphins are declining steeply in the Amazon basin
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
The Amazon basin is home to two species of river dolphins - the boto (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) - that were once considered to be a...
Amazon river dolphins in steep decline: study
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
Once considered abundant in the Amazon basin, the boto (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) are now halving in population every 10 years, sai...
Scientists use rocket scanner to learn how whales hear
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
CT, a common tool in in medical diagnostics, uses a special type of x-ray technology to take cross-sectional pictures of an organism or object. The researchers ...
Threatened Cambodia river dolphins making 'historic' rebound
Apr 23, 2018 (AFP)
The Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their bulging foreheads and short beaks, once swam through much of the Mekong river but in recent decades have been limited to...
New species of ancient whale found in New Zealand
Apr 18, 2018 (UPI)
The new classification is based on the analysis of a skull and related bones recovered from Kokoamu Greensand, a fossil-rich rock deposit on New Zealand's South...
Iceland resumes fin whale hunt after two-year pause
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
The only company in Iceland that hunts fin whales, Hvalur packed away its harpoons in 2016 because of commercial difficulties in Japan, its biggest market, wher...
Fit for porpoise: Gene changes made 'river pig' unique
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
The finless, dolphin-like creature, which sports a permanent, almost human grin on its snub-nosed face, is the world's only freshwater porpoise. But there are o...
Sperm whale 'clicks' help scientists understand behaviour
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
Sperm whales, which can measure up to 20 metres (67 feet) long, are listed as "vulnerable" to extinction. The Australian researchers hope the audio recordings w...
The blue whale genome reveals the animals' extraordinary evolutionary history
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
Surprisingly, the genomes show that rorquals have been hybridizing during their evolutionary history. In addition, rorquals seem to have separated into differen...
Like human societies, whales value culture and family ties
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Through a detailed genetic study of kinship published in PLOS One, an international team of collaborators has demonstrated that related whales returned to the s...
Bowhead whales not only singers, but avid composers too
Apr 03, 2018 (AFP)
Why, they sing, of course. From late fall to early spring, off the east coast of Greenland, some 200 bowheads hunted to the edge of extinction serenade each oth...
Japan whalers return from Antarctic hunt after killing 333 whales
Mar 31, 2018 (AFP)
A fleet of five whalers set sail for the Southern Ocean in November, as Tokyo pursues its "research whaling" in defiance of global criticism. Three of the vesse...
More than 130 pilot whales die in mass Australia beaching
Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)
The stranding of 150 whales at Hamelin Bay, some 315 kilometres (195 miles) south of Perth, was spotted by a commercial fisherman at daybreak, with fears the ca...
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