In the summer of 2020, researchers from the University of Manitoba set up a time-lapse camera overlooking the Churchill River ...

Baleen whales migrate from high latitude feeding grounds to subtropical reproductive winter grounds, translocating limiting nutrients across ecosystems. This study estimates the latitudinal ...

With smaller species, this may involve the (entire) skull; teeth or baleen. Sperm whale teeth are highly sought-after and tradable collectibles (although this is illegal), and ambergris from the ...

The Bowhead baleen whale can live to the age of 200 years old and lives in ... which provides insulation against the frigid waters. Their massive skulls are capable of breaking through sea ice over a ...

When monitoring baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean, researchers found year-to-year variations corollated with changes in the availability of the species they forage on. In vast oceans ...

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It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Now scientists have finally figured out how these ...

Published today in PLOS One, our new research reveals these baleen whale species’ response to major changes in their ecosystem can be heard in their songs. The six-year study took place in whale ...

Eavesdropping on whale songs has provided vital new information in the battle to protect the endangered species. Variations in detected whale songs are linked with shifting food sources for the ...

Variations in detected whale songs are linked with shifting food sources for the giants of the ocean, say scientists. Researchers who monitored baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean found ...

Variations in detected whale songs are linked with shifting food sources for the giants of the ocean, say scientists. Researchers who monitored baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean found year ...

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane. The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with ...