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whale
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Are we really about to talk to whales?
A humpback whale surfaces for a chat. Jay Ondreicka/Shutterstock Luke Rendell, University of St Andrews The past decade…
May 27, 2024
19-million-year-old fossil jaw bone hints the biggest whales first evolved somewhere unexpected
The baleen whale fossil at Museums Victoria Research Institute. Eugene Hyland, Museums Victoria James Patrick Rule, Monash University…
January 16, 2024
Playful whales can use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant. This “kelping” behaviour is more common than we realised
WA Western Whale Watch Australia, CC BY-NC-ND Olaf Meynecke, Griffith University If you’re a whale, there’s often not…
October 11, 2023
An expert explains the stranding of 97 pilot whales in WA and their mysterious ‘huddling’ before the tragedy
Kate Sprogis, The University of Western Australia Sad scenes are unfolding in Western Australia after a pod of…
August 8, 2023
Unraveling the Evolutionary Mystery of the Pygmy Right Whale
The evolutionary relationships of the pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata), the smallest and most enigmatic of the living…
July 25, 2023
A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters
A Bryde’s whale. worldclassphoto/Shutterstock John McCarthy, Flinders University; Erin Sebo, Flinders University, and Matthew Firth, Flinders University In…
March 15, 2023
Warming oceans may force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters
Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s…
September 4, 2022
Is Migaloo … dead? As climate change transforms the ocean, the iconic white humpback has been missing for two years
Vanessa Pirotta, Macquarie University It’s that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit…
July 10, 2022
New Species of Beaked Whale Revealed By Taxonomic Study
A team of scientists, led by University of Auckland marine biologist Emma L. Carroll, originally set out to…
November 12, 2021
Ancient Whale Found in the Desert Named After Egyptian God
As I’m sure most people have seen before in the closest streaming service documentary, whales are truly beautiful…
September 9, 2021