Scalloped hammerhead sharks hold their breath to keep their bodies warm during deep dives into cold water where they hunt prey such as deep sea squids. This discovery, published in Science by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ...
Plants & Animals
May 11, 2023
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For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2023
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Every year in May, female elephant seals leave the beaches in California where they gave birth, nursed young, and molted, to embark on a seven-month foraging migration across the North Pacific Ocean. There is danger in the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2021
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In the world of Costa's hummingbirds, it's not size that matters—it's sound. During breeding season, male Costa's perform a high-speed dive during which they "sing" to potential mates using their tail feathers.
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2018
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Narwhals released after entanglement in nets and outfitted with heart monitors performed a series of deep dives, swimming hard to escape, while their heart rates dropped to unexpectedly low levels of three to four beats per ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2017
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working in Taiwan has found that certain types of diving beetles have a mechanical advantage over other less evolved types of diving beetles. In their paper published in Journal of the ...
Studying female reproductive tracts and sperm in diving beetles (Dytiscidae), researchers from the University of Arizona and Syracuse University have obtained a glimpse into a bizarre and amazing world of sperm that can take ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2012
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A team of biologists affiliated with several institutions in Britain and Ireland, has found that northern gannets exhibit a type of behavioral lateralization when plunge diving. In their study, reported in the journal Biology ...
Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. The authors suggest this is ...
Evolution
Dec 19, 2022
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Weddell seals are excellent divers, and provide so much iron to their pups during lactation that the mothers dramatically limit their own diving and underwater foraging capabilities.
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2022
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