http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Marine sanctuary officials planned to return to Hawaii waters with modified equipment Friday to try to cut loose a young humpback whale entangled in several hundred yards of heavy plastic rope. http://www.physorg.com/news179118026.html Biology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:40:01 EST news179118026 While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History shows that bluefin tuna is routinely plated in sushi bars sampled in New York and Colorado. A quarter of what was labeled as tuna on sushi menus was bluefin, and some was even escolar, a waxy, buttery fish often labeled "white tuna" that is banned for sale in Japan and Italy because it can cause gastrointestinal distress. The new research is published in PLoS ONE. http://www.physorg.com/news177858752.html Biology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:04 EST news177858752 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study may have solved the long-standing question of how elephants sleep during their long migrations at sea, when they can be away from land for up to eight months. http://www.physorg.com/news177315628.html Biology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:22:02 EST news177315628 What do a West African drummer and a sperm whale have in common? According to some reports, they can both spot rhythms in the chatter of an ocean crowded with the calls of marine mammals -- a feat impossible for the untrained human ear. http://www.physorg.com/news175786877.html Biology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:10:01 EST news175786877 After 15 years of research in the waters of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and an international coalition of organizations have unveiled the largest genetic study of humpback whale populations ever conducted in the Southern Hemisphere. http://www.physorg.com/news174718568.html Biology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:01 EST news174718568 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have been studying how krill form into superswarms, which are among the largest gatherings of living creatures on Earth. http://www.physorg.com/news174636686.html Biology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:50:05 EST news174636686 (AP) -- Four years after being placed on the Endangered Species List, the dwindling sea otters of southwest Alaska on Wednesday were given an important recovery tool. http://www.physorg.com/news174198176.html Biology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:30:01 EST news174198176 (AP) -- A government study found that a group of endangered beluga whales in Alaska is declining, raising concern that bolstered protection for the animals is not coming quickly enough. http://www.physorg.com/news174110166.html Biology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:10:01 EST news174110166 Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news172909374.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:50:04 EST news172909374 When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have discovered previously unknown species that feed only on dead whales - and use DNA technology to show that the species diversity in our oceans may be higher than previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news172739527.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:30:01 EST news172739527 (AP) -- Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They're building windmills. http://www.physorg.com/news171564944.html Space & Earth Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:10:01 EST news171564944 (PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at the University of California, Riverside report new evidence for evolutionary change recorded in both the fossil record and the genomes (or genetic blueprints) of living organisms, providing fresh support for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.physorg.com/news171272885.html Biology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:50:08 EST news171272885 Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon when a beached mother whale was reunited with her calf on a southern Florida beach, the mother frantically thrashing about and splashing water into the air. http://www.physorg.com/news169188838.html Biology Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:40:02 EST news169188838 Australian scientists have photographed a humpback whale helping a newborn calf take what appears to be its first breath, a rare event described as the "Holy Grail" for whale-watchers. http://www.physorg.com/news167553925.html Biology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:20:01 EST news167553925 A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound, as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska. http://www.physorg.com/news166022139.html Biology Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:16:25 EST news166022139 A new measurement system for the detection of whales is used for the first time on board of the research vessel Polarstern. Whales are usually difficult to spot. On the one hand, they spend the greater part of their life under water. On the other hand, only a small part of their body can be seen when they surface, and this can even hardly be distinguished from the surrounding water. http://www.physorg.com/news165751020.html Technology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:05:45 EST news165751020 Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stocks of minke whales and other protected species. http://www.physorg.com/news164976613.html Biology Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:51:36 EST news164976613 The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling. http://www.physorg.com/news164594941.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:49:11 EST news164594941 (AP) -- Authorities on Sunday began the grim task of removing the carcasses of 55 whales that beached themselves and had to be shot despite the frantic rescue efforts of hundreds of volunteers. http://www.physorg.com/news162995886.html Biology Sun, 31 May 2009 13:39:05 EST news162995886 (AP) -- There's a monster lurking off the coast of New York. Experts in a Cornell University acoustics program said Thursday that blue whales have been positively identified in the area for the first time. http://www.physorg.com/news162744038.html Biology Thu, 28 May 2009 15:41:30 EST news162744038 Using a system of underwater hydrophones that can record sounds from hundreds of miles away, a team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales in an area they were thought to be extinct. http://www.physorg.com/news162053326.html Biology Wed, 20 May 2009 15:49:49 EST news162053326 (AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news161845979.html Biology Mon, 18 May 2009 06:13:35 EST news161845979 Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965. http://www.physorg.com/news161269538.html Biology Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:09 EST news161269538 (AP) -- Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day - the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring. http://www.physorg.com/news161084736.html Biology Sat, 09 May 2009 10:46:41 EST news161084736 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are investigating whether or not noise generated by the oil and gas industry might affect the day-to-day behaviour of sperm whales. http://www.physorg.com/news160934516.html Biology Thu, 07 May 2009 17:02:55 EST news160934516 (AP) -- The population of false killer whales in waters close to Hawaii appears to have dramatically declined over the past 20 years, a new study says. http://www.physorg.com/news157973688.html Biology Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:36:28 EST news157973688 Experts studying the mass beaching of whales along Australia's coast have warned that such tragedies could become more frequent as global warming brings the mammals' food stocks closer to shore. http://www.physorg.com/news157888914.html Biology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:03:14 EST news157888914 All but one of the 10 whales that survived a mass beaching on Australia's west coast were Wednesday believed to have come back ashore and were unlikely to survive, authorities said. http://www.physorg.com/news157186652.html Biology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:58:47 EST news157186652 Hippos spend lots of time in the water and now it turns out (or researchers argue), they are the closest living relative to whales. It also turns out, the two are swimming in a bit of controversy. http://www.physorg.com/news156605855.html Biology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:38:02 EST news156605855 (AP) -- Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost financing in the current budget crunch. http://www.physorg.com/news156352453.html Biology Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:14:46 EST news156352453