Personal Perspectives

Menopausal Moms: A Mammal Mystery

In honor of Mother's Day, the Citizens of the Sea blog salutes ocean-going mothers...

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Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals

Marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, and seals have an amazing ability to hold...

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Listening for Clues About Sonar’s Effects on Marine Mammals

Many animals depend on their eyes to navigate, find food, locate mates, and for...

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Flippers or Feet? An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows

In the seagrass beds and kelp forests of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, nearly...

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Flippers, Jawbones, and Blowholes: Marine Specimens Inspire Artists

Rachel Caauwe was one of a dozen artists who spent a recent Saturday sketching...

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Don't Feed Wild Dolphins

A Twelve-Step group for wild animals with people-food addictions? Don’t be...

When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

More recently than you might think, say scientists who scoured the fossil...

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Whale Collections

The Smithsonian has more whale skulls and skeletons than any other collection in...

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Researchers Studying Killer Whales

Researchers from the SOCAL-10 research partnership study the behavior of orcas...

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Bottlenose Dolphin Pod

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are very social animals, and often travel...

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Listening for Bowhead Whales

Hoping to hear bowhead whales, NOAA marine mammal scientist Sue Moore listens to...

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Sperm Whale Post-Mortem

The Smithsonian Marine Mammal team moves into action after a dead sperm whale is...