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A whale's upper body lands on a fishing boat
Why Did This Whale Smack Into a Boat?
Collisions with small craft are rare, but there are conditions that can make these encounters more likely.
Why Did This Whale Smack Into a Boat?
Why Did This Whale Smack Into a Boat?

Collisions with small craft are rare, but there are conditions that can make these encounters more likely.

Collisions with small craft are rare, but there are conditions that can make these encounters more likely.

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Previously Unknown Beaked Whale Species Spotted off Mexico
Max Kozlov | Dec 12, 2020 | 2 min read
A team of scientists searching for a rare species of whale instead found a species of whale they say has never been recorded.
Slideshow: Solving a Gray Whale Murder Mystery
Ashley Yeager | Nov 12, 2020 | 2 min read
One way to investigate the record-setting deaths of the marine mammals is to perform autopsies on them, but researchers are also taking a close look at living whales for clues to what could be killing them.
Infographic: Investigating Whale Strandings Along the North American Coast
Ashley Yeager | Nov 1, 2020 | 2 min read
Knock-on effects of melting sea ice in the Arctic may be to blame for a spate of gray whale deaths along their migration route from Mexico to Alaska.
Clues Point to Climate Change as a Culprit in Gray Whale Deaths
Ashley Yeager | Nov 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
For the past two years, the charismatic marine mammals have washed up on Pacific shores in record numbers. Scientists investigating the strandings suspect warming waters and melting sea ice are partly to blame.
More than 450 Pilot Whales Stranded in Tasmanian Inlet
Ashley Yeager | Sep 23, 2020 | 3 min read
Rescue teams are working to save the whales that are still alive and develop a strategy to remove the dead in the Australian state’s largest stranding event to date.
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Tom Norris, Marine Mammal Acoustician, Dies at 55
Amanda Heidt | Sep 18, 2020 | 3 min read
Norris, who founded the research firm Bio-Waves, furthered the study of marine mammals using passive acoustic monitoring technology he designed himself.
Watcher of Whales: A Profile of Roger Payne
Diana Kwon | Nov 1, 2019 | 9 min read
A love of music and science led the marine biologist to discover that whales sing songs, a discovery that he’s since used to convince the world the animals are worth saving.
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Image of the Day: Hybrid Cetacean
Chia-Yi Hou | Jun 21, 2019 | 1 min read
The DNA of a whale shows its father was a beluga and its mother was a narwhal.
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Government Scientists Launch Investigation into Whale Deaths
Chia-Yi Hou | Jun 3, 2019 | 1 min read
About 70 gray whales have been found dead this year on the west coast of the US.
Mysterious Killer Whales Observed off Chilean Coast
Carolyn Wilke | Mar 8, 2019 | 2 min read
These Type D killer whales have blunter heads and a different color pattern than other orcas. A new species designation hinges on the results of genetic testing.
Image of the Day: Distress Signal
Sukanya Charuchandra | Jun 13, 2018 | 1 min read
Dolphins and pilot whales can tell which orcas are coming for them by listening to their calls.  
Proposed Seismic Surveys Raise Concern Over Health of Marine Life
Ashley Yeager | May 11, 2018 | 5 min read
The Atlantic has been free of intense air-gun blasts to probe for oil and gas for 30 years, and researchers fear for endangered North Atlantic right whales and other animals.
Bowhead Whales Impress Researchers With Their Song Diversity
Catherine Offord | Apr 4, 2018 | 2 min read
A group of around 300 whales produced 184 distinct songs over just a few years, according to a new study.
Image of the Day: No Table Manners
The Scientist | Aug 24, 2017 | 1 min read
Ancient bones of the newly described toothless, stout-nosed dolphin Inermorostrum xenops suggest that it slurped its food.
Image of the Day: Whale Watching
The Scientist | Mar 7, 2017 | 1 min read
Scientists capture the True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) on film for the first time.
Song Around the Animal Kingdom
The Scientist | Mar 1, 2017 | 3 min read
Diverse species are said to sing, but music is in the ear of the beholder.
The Mystery of Whale Song
Kate Yandell | Mar 1, 2017 | 2 min read
Structured whale songs are shared by group members and evolve over time, but the calls’ functions are still unclear.
“Waviness” Protects Nerves When Whale Mouths Stretch
Joshua A. Krisch | Feb 20, 2017 | 3 min read
Rorqual whales’ mouths can stretch to more than double their length without causing damage, thanks to two layers of neuronal coiling. 
Peter Tyack: Marine Mammal Communications
Anna Azvolinsky | Jul 1, 2016 | 9 min read
The University of St. Andrews behavioral ecologist studies the social structures and behaviors of whales and dolphins, recording and analyzing their acoustic communications.
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