Over 50 billion tons of sand is mined every year—and it's pushing species to the brink of extinction.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Beluga whales at an aquarium near Tokyo are learning how to paint pictures as part of an autumn art programme for visitors, an official said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2013
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Neuroscientists have for the first time mapped the sensory and motor systems in the brains of dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B is publishing the results, showing that at least two areas of the dolphin brain are ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2015
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From barks to gobbles, the sounds that most animals use to communicate are innate, not learned. However, a few species, including humans, can imitate new sounds and use them in appropriate social contexts. This ability, known ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2014
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With hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins dying every year after being accidentally entangled in fishing gear, the world must take concrete steps during the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting starting ...
Ecology
Oct 20, 2016
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Scientists have known for decades that modern-day dolphins are some of the most intelligent and social animals on earth. Demonstrating complex behaviour and communication dolphins remind us of ourselves while living in a ...
Evolution
Apr 13, 2016
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The evolution of similar traits in different species, a process known as convergent evolution, is widespread not only at the physical level, but also at the genetic level, according to new research led by scientists at Queen ...
Evolution
Sep 4, 2013
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Every summer in the Faroe Islands hundreds of pilot whales and dolphins are slaughtered in drive hunts known as the "grind" that residents defend as a long-held tradition.
Ecology
Sep 20, 2021
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A team of researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Computational Biology Department (CBD) have developed new methods to identify parts of the genome critical to understanding how certain traits of species evolved.
Evolution
May 8, 2023
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When the ancestors of living cetaceans—whales, dolphins and porpoises—first dipped their toes into water, a series of evolutionary changes were sparked that ultimately nestled these swimming mammals into the larger hoofed ...
Evolution
Sep 24, 2009
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