News tagged with blue whales
Blue whales have perfect pitch
Blue whales have the remarkable ability to synchronize the pitch of their songs so that they all hit the exact same note, according to a new study. Professor of Physics Roger Bland recorded thousands of whale ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Blue whales align the pitch of their songs with extreme accuracy, study finds
Blue whales are able to synchronize the pitch of their calls with an extremely high level of accuracy, and a very slim margin of error from call to call, according to a new study of the blue whale population ...
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Evolution of whale size linked to diet
(PhysOrg.com) -- The wide range of body sizes among whales arose early in their evolution and was associated with changes in diet, according to a new study by researchers at UC Davis and UCLA. The study appears in today's ...
May 20, 2010 |
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Australian fossil unlocks secrets to the origin of whales
Museum Victoria palaeobiologist Dr Erich Fitzgerald has made new groundbreaking discoveries into the origin of baleen whales, based on a 25 million year old fossil found near Torquay in Victoria.
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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Blue whales singing with deeper voices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blue whales, the largest animals on earth, are singing with deeper voices every year, but scientists are unsure of the reason.
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys: scientists
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.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Blue whales found near NY, off their usual path
(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.
May 28, 2009 |
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Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach
(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.
May 28, 2009 |
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Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters
(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.
May 18, 2009 |
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Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)
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.
May 11, 2009 |
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Animal families with the most diversity also have widest range of size
(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle.
Mar 17, 2009 |
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