A couple walking on a North Carolina beach made a rare discovery that could help researchers solve mysteries from long ago.
Archaeology
Jan 12, 2022
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South Africa is renowned for having one of the world's biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the sharks normally gather on the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2023
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An international team of researchers has discovered what it believes to be a new population of blue whales in the western Indian Ocean.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course of human evolution, according ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 18, 2012
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Blue whales may be the biggest animals in the world, but they're also some of the hardest to find.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2021
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More than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat to animals at the top of the food chain. A new study, just published in the journal Science, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2018
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Commercial whaling in the 20th century decimated populations of large whales but also appears to have had a lasting impact on the genetic diversity of today's surviving whales, new research from Oregon State University shows.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2023
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A group of killer whales spotted hunting off the coast of California and Oregon over two decades may actually be their own unique population of animals, a new study says.
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2024
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon, according to a team of marine researchers from the University of Maine, the University ...
Environment
Sep 6, 2010
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Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2023
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