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1,426 results for: Whales

  1. Science Future for June 4, 2011

    June 27 Go behind the scenes of Houston’s Cockrell Butterfly Center. Go to https://store.hmns.org July 15–17 Swim with the world’s largest fish at the fourth annual Whale Shark Festival in Isla Mujeres, Mexico. More information at www.whalesharkfest.com

    By Science News
  2. Animals

    Baited camera snaps first live giant squid

    For the first time, researchers have photographed a living giant squid in the wild.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Animals

    Beyond Falsetto: Do mice sing at ultrasonic frequencies?

    Male mice may serenade prospective mates at pitches about two octaves higher than the shrillest sounds audible to the human ear. With Audio.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Animals

    First maternal care filmed in squid

    At least one squid species turns out to be a caring mom after all, say researchers who filmed the creatures using remote-control cameras positioned deep in the Pacific Ocean. With Video.

    By Susan Milius

  5. Science Future for February 23, 2013

    March 23 See rare whale specimens, watch a re-creation of a whale hunting a squid and learn how scientists track these giants at the new Whales: Giants of the Deep exhibition at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. See bit.ly/SFamnhwhale March 28 The Russian Soyuz spacecraft launches from Kazakhstan carrying three crew members […]

    By Science News
  6. Animals

    Porpoises Can Teach Man Marine Diving, Detection

    Excerpt from the September 7, 1963, issue of Science News Letter

    By Science News
  7. Animals

    Seeking the loneliest whale

    An enigmatic whale roams the North Pacific, and next year Bruce Mate will lead a monthlong expedition to find it.

    By Sid Perkins

  8. Book Review: The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News
  9. Life

    Humpback whale alters song if another one sings along

    Acoustical study of male songs shows first evidence of the whales responding musically to each other.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Life

    Bacteria seen swimming the electron shuffle

    Researchers have captured the bacterium Shewanella’s behavior on film, and the microbes didn’t behave as expected

    By Laura Sanders

  11. Book Review: Shark: In Peril in the Sea by David Owen

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News

  12. Book Review: Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature by Brian Switek

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News