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1,417 results for: Whales
- Life
Giant squid population is one big happy species
Elusive deep ocean dwellers have low genetic diversity despite living around the globe.
- Life
Signs of culture in whales and monkeys
Mammals learn feeding behaviors from their friends and family members.
- Animals
Deep-sea worms drop acid to get dinner
Bone-eating worms produce chemicals to dissolve and feed on skeletons.
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- Life
Antarctic humpbacks make a krill killing
Late-arriving sea ice enhances crustacean feast for whales, but the bounty may be fleeting.
- Physics
Acoustical Society of America
A new way to cough, music for the deaf, toadfish sonic sabotage and more in meeting news.
- Earth
Earth & Environment
Mountaintop mining, plastic fish and the return of the right whale in this week's news
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- Space
European Planetary Science Conference and AAS Division for Planetary Sciences
News from a joint conference held October 2-7 in Nantes, France.
- Genetics
Killer whales are (at least) two species
Orca genetics highlights distinctions among groups that feed on different prey.
- Animals
Antarctic waters may shelter wrecks from shipworms
Ocean currents and polar front form 'moat' that keeps destructive mollusks at bay.
- Life
Many genes in dolphins and bats evolved in the same way to allow echolocation
Widespread changes scattered across the genomes of distantly related species cooperated to craft the trait.
