In late March 2019, annual whale and dolphin research surveys led by Cetacean Research Centre (CETREC WA), discovered the first ever record of killer whales hunting and killing an adult blue whale.
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Scientists have discovered that populations of Australasian killer whales revolve around matrilineal ties after using DNA to determine their populations across the region.
Plants & Animals
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Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2019
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Researchers found something unexpected inside a rare false killer whale that stranded dead on Maui in February 2021, and it could ultimately help the endangered species. The whale was an insular false killer whale, the most ...
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Mar 23, 2021
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In a report published today in the journal Genome Research, scientists report finding strong genetic evidence supporting the theory there are several species of killer whales (Orcinus orca, also known as orcas) throughout ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 22, 2010
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Male killer whales are more likely to die if they are not at the centre of their social group, new research suggests.
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(Phys.org)—Crocodiles are often thought of as living fossils, remaining unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. But scientists have shown this is not always the case and that 150 million years ago, their feeding mechanisms ...
Archaeology
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Erich Fitzgerald, an Australian paleontologist, believes he has found the missing link between ancient toothed whales that caught and ate fish and modern baleen whales that eat by sucking in huge volumes ...
A beluga whale that swam up France's Seine river appears to be underweight and officials are worried about its health, regional authorities said Thursday.
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Around 600 pilot whales recently became stranded on a New Zealand beach, around 400 of which died before volunteers could refloat them back into the sea. Sadly, this kind of mass whale stranding has occurred since human records ...
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