Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers—offering a potentially safer and more cost-effective way ...
Ecology
Feb 22, 2025
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Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery, given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling started—even today, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2025
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Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed.
Ecology
Feb 19, 2025
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Frustrated with which dating app to use? Unable to find "the one?" Spare a thought for some of the animal kingdom, where humanity has hampered their efforts to find a mate.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2025
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Killer whales, as apex predators with long lifespans, are prone to accumulating high levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like DDTs in their bodies, raising concerns about the potential impacts. DDTs were widely ...
Ecology
Feb 12, 2025
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Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict endangered whale habitat, guiding ships along the Atlantic coast to avoid them. The tool is designed ...
Ecology
Feb 11, 2025
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All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf's law.
Evolution
Feb 8, 2025
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Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face predatory attacks ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2025
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The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales and other baleen whales, which ...
Ecology
Feb 6, 2025
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Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, prompting an outpouring of grief from marine mammal lovers and leaving an important question etched into the sand—what killed her?
Plants & Animals
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