The waters off California have grown quieter, and scientists are listening. New research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has found a sharp decline in the number of blue whale ...
Scientists have been left seriously concerned after thousands of blue whales "went quiet" in the ocean. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California have found ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Humpback whales may put on a majestic show off our coast. But deep at sea, they've been falling prey to a changing ocean environment that could be a threat in the future. A new ...
The humpback whale population in the North Pacific was once reduced to just a few thousand individuals because of commercial whaling. It finally peaked at more than 33,000 whales in 2012 – and then ...
Most people are lucky to simply get a glimpse of some fragment of a whale. A subtle puff of mist over the horizon, the curve ...
Mystery "quack-like" sounds detected in the ocean over 40 years may have been whales talking, suggests a new study. The noises were picked up in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of New Zealand, in ...
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Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...
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