Using a "patient monitoring" device attached to a whale entangled in fishing gear, scientists showed for the first time how fishing lines changed a whale's diving and swimming behavior. The monitoring revealed how fishing ...

Biology - Ecology

May 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, the scientific expertise of the Wildlife Conservation Society helped inform an international body ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 21, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(Phys.org) —The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. The animal's huge size and global range make its movements and behavior ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 13, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Sonar used by the navy may cause porpoises to get trapped in fishing nets and killed, according to a recent study.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 13, 2013 2.3 / 5 (3) 2 |

Iceland plans to resume its disputed commercial fin whale hunt in June with a quota of at least 154 whales, the head of the only company that catches the giant mammals said Saturday.

Biology - Ecology

May 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

(AP)—A group of Hawaii fishermen is asking the federal government to take northern Pacific humpback whales off the endangered species list.

Biology - Ecology

May 03, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 0

Keeping track of individuals in an endangered population of animals is a cumbersome and time-consuming task. Conservationists physically tag animals in the wild to better follow them over time. But tagging ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

Only within the past 12 years have marine biologists come to learn about the eye-opening characteristics of mystifying sea worms that live and thrive on the bones of whale carcasses.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 30, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Male humpback whales sing complex songs in tropical waters during the winter breeding season, but they also sing at higher latitudes at other times of the year. NOAA researchers have provided the first detailed ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

Humpback whales are able to pass on hunting techniques to each other, just as humans do, new research has found. A team of researchers, led by the University of St Andrews, has discovered that a new feeding ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 25, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

The circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean is an important region for global marine food webs and carbon cycling because of sea-ice formation and its unique plankton ecosystem. The origin of its ecosystems can be ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

Australia will fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations' highest court in June to try to stop Japan's whale hunt in Antarctica.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —In 1972, a U.S. Senate committee reported, "Many of the great whales which once populated the oceans have now dwindled to the edge of extinction," due to commercial hunting. The committee also ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 4

(Phys.org) —Scientists have shown that mainland New Zealand has become an increasingly important winter habitat for southern right whales – a population hunted to near extinction in the 19th century – and members of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 05, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

The haul from Japan's whaling mission in the Southern Ocean was a "record low" this year, a government minister said, blaming "unforgivable sabotage" by activists.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 05, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 3