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Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
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Jun 08, 2009 |
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In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old ...
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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.
'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales
Jun 23, 2009 |
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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 ...
Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.
Gray whales a fraction of historic levels, genetic research says
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Sep 10, 2007 |
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Gray whales in the Pacific Ocean, long thought to have fully recovered from whaling, were once three to five times as plentiful as they are now, according to a report to be published September 10 in the Proceedings of ...
Baby whale's first breath caught on camera off Australia
Jul 23, 2009 |
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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.
Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status
Sep 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in ...
Ancient toothed whale remains found near Santa Cruz
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Aug 13, 2009 |
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A 1,000-pound slab of sandstone lifted off a beach in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Wednesday may provide a better glimpse of what plied the seas 5 million years ago.
Biologists use DNA to study migration of threatened whale sharks
Apr 07, 2009 |
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giants of the fish world that strike terror only among tiny creatures like the plankton and krill they eat -- are imperiled by over-fishing of the species in parts of its ocean range.
Crew plans to cut rope to free Hawaii whale
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(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.
New species discovered on whale skeletons
Sep 21, 2009 |
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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 ...
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