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Canada to take steps to protect vanishing North Atlantic right whales from ships
The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...
Canada to help protect vanishing species of whales from ships
The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect North Atlantic right whales from lethal collisions ...
Listening to whales: New state program monitors whale acoustics to develop conservation strategies
Scientists with the Massachusetts State Division of Marine Fisheries have launched a new program to track where and when the ...
Massachusetts whale watch is on a heater seeing white sharks: ‘Something unprecedented is happening out there’
Other recent shark sightings on the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app include an 8-foot shark spotted in ...
Federal judge allows Ocean City’s lawsuit over wind project to move forward
A federal judge has allowed key portions of Ocean City and Fenwick Island’s legal challenge to US Wind’s offshore wind ...
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Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically endangered whale species: 'How do you explain that?'
"They've been hanging on by their flipper-tips for tens of decades." Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically ...
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Some Killer Whales Share Their Lunch with Humans, and May be Trying to Build Relationships
Learn why some orcas, commonly known as killer whales, are sharing their prey with humans.
Affectionate 'tongue nibbling' observed for the first time among orcas in the wild
A study published in the journal Oceans details the remarkable chance encounter between a group of citizen scientists on a ...
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Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery
Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...