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Anti-whaling leader suspects Japan behind arrest

May 22, 2012 (AFP)

Militant environmental group Sea Shepherd's leader Paul Watson on Tuesday suggested Japan was involved in his recent arrest in Germany, as he vowed to continue ...

Anti-whaling leader freed on bail while extradition decided

May 18, 2012 (AFP)

A German court on Friday granted bail to Paul Watson, the founder of marine conservation group Sea Shepherd, while authorities decide whether he can be extradit...

Bardot offers to take whaling activist's place in prison

May 15, 2012 (AFP)

Screen legend and animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on Tuesday offered to take marine conservation activist Paul Watson's place in prison, saying she was...

Anti-whaling group leader arrested in Germany

May 14, 2012 (AFP)

The founder of conservation group Sea Shepherd, which annually disrupts Japan's whale hunt, has been arrested in Frankfurt for extradition to Costa Rica, the or...

Anti-whaling group leader ordered held in Germany

May 14, 2012 (AFP)

A German court on Monday ordered Paul Watson, the founder of marine conservation group Sea Shepherd, to remain in custody a day after his arrest on a warrant fr...

Whale population size, dynamics determined based on ancient DNA

May 11, 2012 (SPX)

Estimates of whale population size based on genetics versus historical records diverge greatly, making it difficult to fully understand the ecological implicati...

Iceland tax ruling could spare giant whales

May 09, 2012 (AFP)

A dispute over an abolished tax rebate for whalers means there will likely be no fin whale hunt off Iceland this year, the head of the only company that catches...

Norway whalers take first whales of hunting season: official

May 02, 2012 (AFP)

Norwegian whale hunters have harpooned the first three whales of the year, nearly a month after the controversial hunting season began, the country's Fishermen'...

Study Amplifies Understanding of Hearing in Baleen Whales

Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)

For decades, scientists have known that dolphins and other toothed whales have specialized fats associated with their jaws, which efficiently convey sound waves...

App can save whales from ship collisions

Apr 16, 2012 (UPI)

A new iPad and iPhone application is aimed at protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from collisions with ships, its U.S. developers say. ...

How to make high-end perfumes without whale barf

Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)

University of British Columbia researchers have identified a gene in balsam fir trees that could facilitate cheaper and more sustainable production of plant-bas...

Dolphins cultivate loose alliances

Apr 09, 2012 (SPX)

Dolphins behave uniquely. On the one hand, male dolphins form alliances with others; on the other hand, they live in an open social structure. Anthropologists f...

False killer whales use acoustic squint to target prey

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

Hunting in the ocean's murky depths, vision is of little use, so toothed whales and dolphins (odontocetes) rely on echolocation to locate tasty morsels with inc...

Ancient whale species sheds new light on its modern relatives

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

Beluga whales and narwhals live solely in the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-arctic. Smithsonian scientists, however, found that this may not have always bee...

Giant squids' giant eyes: The better to see hungry whales with

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

It's no surprise that giant and colossal squid are big, but it's their eyes that are the real standouts when it comes to size, with diameters measuring two or t...

Genetic survey of endangered Antarctic blue whales shows surprising diversity

Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)

More than 99 percent of Antarctic blue whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century, but the first circumpolar genetic study of these critic...

Saboteurs blamed as Japan whale catch falls short

Mar 09, 2012 (AFP)

Japan's Antarctic whaling fleet has killed less than a third of the animals it planned to because of sabotage by activists, Tokyo said Friday as it announced th...

Sea Shepherd attacks whalers: Japan agency

Mar 06, 2012 (AFP)

Militant environmentalists Sea Shepherd fired distress flares at whaling ships in the Antarctic Ocean, the Japanese Fisheries Agency said Tuesday, in the latest...

Hong Kong airline criticised over dolphin cargo

Feb 26, 2012 (AFP)

Hong Kong Airlines was under pressure Sunday to stop its live dolphin cargo business after an internal memo describing a recent delivery from Japan to Vietnam w...

Japanese whalers under new attack by campaigners

Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)

Anti-whaling campaigners Sea Shepherd attacked a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean by firing paint bombs at it and trying to jam its propeller with r...