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1,410 results for: Whales

  1. Earth

    Oceanographers with flippers

    Tracking seal dives off Antarctica reveals seafloor troughs that affect ocean circulation.

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  2. Earth

    How killer whales are like people

    Killer whales may be sentinels for toxic chemicals accumulating in even landlubbers.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Cousteau finds “hypocrisy” in scientific whaling

    Another challenge surfaces to Japan's "scientific" whaling.

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  4. Life

    Marine census still counting new life-forms

    The Gulf of Mexico ranked among the top five marine regions for number of known species.

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  5. Life

    An oceanic endeavor

    Marine census catalogs creatures that roam all corners of the seas.

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  6. Life

    Earliest whales gave birth on land

    Recently discovered fossils of a protowhale help fill in gaps in the land-to-water transition.

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  7. Life

    Evolutionary genetic relationships coming into focus

    Researchers have filled in about 40 percent of the tree of life for mammals and birds, but other vertebrates lag behind.

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  8. Ecosystems

    Exxon Valdez killed future for some killer whales

    An Alaskan oil spill disrupted family structure in killer-whale groups, with lasting and dramatic repercussions.

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  9. Life

    Mother right whales know best, maybe

    Southern right whales learn where to eat from mom and may not seek new feeding grounds if these favorite restaurants go belly-up.

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  10. Life

    2009 Science News of the Year: Life

    Breeding records for sheep on Hirta offer an unusual opportunity to study inheritance. Image Credit: Arpat Ozgul Gentler winters shrink sheepWarming has trumped the benefits of fat to shrink sheep on the remote North Atlantic island of Hirta, a new analytical approach has revealed (SN: 8/1/09, p. 12). Weights for wild female Soay sheep dropped […]

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  11. Ecosystems

    Pacific Northwest salmon poisoning killer whales

    A protected population of resident orcas around Vancouver Island and Puget Sound is the planet’s most PCB-contaminated mammals, says one researcher.

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  12. Math

    Million-dollar math prize awarded, but not necessarily accepted

    The reclusive mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture may or may not claim his prize.

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