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Mexico to use dolphins to save endangered vaquita porpoise
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists estimate there are just 30 remaining vaquitas, the world's smallest porpoise, a species found only in the waters of the Gulf of California. Environme...
Whales shrank before populations crashed: study
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
If that pattern holds true for other commercially harvested marine species, a drop in body size could serve as early warning that protective measures are needed...
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
Now researchers reporting in Current Biology on June 8 have fossil evidence from extinct early whale species to suggest that those differences in hearing arose ...
DiCaprio, Mexico in push to save vaquita porpoise
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
In May, DiCaprio asked his millions of Twitter and Instagram followers to sign a petition calling on Pena Nieto to do more to protect the world's smallest porpo...
Whales only recently evolved into giants when changing ice, oceans concentrated prey
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
In a study reported May 24 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Nicholas Pyenson, the museum's curator of fossil marine mammals, and collaborators Graham Slat...
Whales, seals and dolphins followed a similar evolutionary path from land to sea
May 22, 2017 (UPI)
By retracing the evolutionary paths of predatory marine mammals, researchers hope to better understand the importance of whale, seal and dolphin species to vuln...
Endangered vaquita marina porpoise could be extinct by 2018
May 16, 2017 (AFP)
Fewer than 30 of the rare mammals (Phocoena sinus) still live in the wild, all in the upper Gulf of California, the WWF said in a report Monday. The vaquita pop...
Activists urge EU to rebuke Denmark for Faroe whale hunt
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
"It is forbidden to kill whales and dolphins in Europe," said Geert Vons, director of the activist group Sea Shepherd Netherlands. "By supporting the Faroe Isla...
France bans captive breeding of dolphins, killer whales
May 06, 2017 (AFP)
Environment Minister Segolene Royal had on Wednesday signed a version of the legislation introducing "tight controls on the reproduction of dolphins", her minis...
Wild dolphins are sicker than captive ones: US study
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
The study in the journal PLOS ONE analyzed the health of two wild dolphin populations -- one group in Florida and another in South Carolina. They were compared ...
'Whispering' keeps humpbacks safe from killer whales, study finds
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Ecologists from Denmark and Australia used temporary tags on humpback mothers and their calves in Exmouth Gulf off western Australia to learn more about the fir...
Rare vaquita porpoise found dead in Mexico
Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)
There are only 30 remaining vaquitas (Phocoena sinus), scientists warned in February. The rare mammals, the world's smallest porpoise, live exclusively in the G...
For whales, Southern California soundscape is a mixed bag
Apr 11, 2017 (UPI)
NOAA scientists recently finished assessing the effects of ocean traffic on whale communication. According to the new study, published this week in the journal ...
Whale cams reveal secret Antarctic feeding habits
Apr 11, 2017 (AFP)
Whale cams have revealed the secret feeding habits of the giant mammals in frozen Antarctica, details on their social lives, and even how they must blow hard to...
Japan kills 333 whales in annual Antarctic hunt
Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)
A Japanese whaling fleet returned to port Friday after an annual Antarctic hunt that killed more than 300 of the mammals as Tokyo pursues the programme in defia...
Italy fishermen down rods in dolphin dispute
Mar 22, 2017 (AFP)
Italian fishermen on Wednesday announced plans for two days of strikes in protest over crafty dolphins they accuse of pinching their catch and threatening to pu...
One of last vaquita porpoises found dead in Mexico
Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)
Environmentalists said Thursday they have found the body of a baby vaquita marina porpoise, one of the last of its kind, washed up dead in northern Mexico. The ...
Rare beaked whale makes film debut
Mar 07, 2017 (AFP)
True's beaked whales, an elusive and little-studied mammal, have been captured on video for the first time, researchers said Tuesday, helping to flesh out a ske...
Whales use nested Russian-doll structure to protect nerve tissue when diving
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Fin whales use two neatly packed levels of nested folds to protect the nerves along the floor of their mouth during lunge feeding, according to new research fro...
Fears of exploding whales as New Zealand clears carcasses
Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)
The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with...
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