News tagged with beaked whales
Study Finds Beaked Whales' Tusks Evolved Through Sexual Selection Process
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Dec 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have wondered why only males of the rarely seen family of beaked whales have “tusks,” since they are squid-eaters and in many of the species, these elaborately modified ...
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Rescuers fail to save beached whales in Florida
Aug 11, 2009 |
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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.
How is that whale listening?
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Researchers from San Diego State University and the University of California have been using computer models to mimic the effects of underwater noise on an unusual whale species and have discovered a new pathway for sound ...
Nice going, mom! Right whales break birth record
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day - the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring.
Probing question: Why do whales beach themselves?
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Apr 25, 2008 |
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Whales are the largest marine mammals in the world — the smallest species weigh in at several tons. When whales beach themselves, they can die simply from the crushing weight of their own bodies or from overheating due to ...
Rocket science leads to new whale discovery
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal - or if they hear it at all.
Monitoring of rare whales near NY harbor ends
Mar 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost financing in the current budget crunch.
No food for hungry gray whales
May 04, 2007 |
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A Canadian researcher says gray whales in the eastern Pacific are facing starvation.
Sperm whales return to Mediterranean
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Feb 14, 2007 |
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Marine biologists in Italy say the sperm whale, once thought to have been nearly wiped from the region by drift nets, has returned to the Mediterranean.
Beaked Whales Perform Extreme Dives to Hunt Deepwater Prey
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Oct 20, 2006 |
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A study of ten beaked whales of two poorly understood species shows their foraging dives are deeper and longer than those reported for any other air-breathing species. This extreme deep-diving behavior is of particular interest ...
Nine rescued whales beach again in Australia
Mar 25, 2009 |
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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.
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