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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...
January 2011
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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 An Extinct Mammal May Have Been Replaced By Today's Sea Cows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...
August 2016
When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?
More recently than you might think, say scientists who scoured the fossil...
July 2016
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales
When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017
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Keeping An Ear Out For Whale Evolution
Large whales are notoriously hard to study. Except when rising to breathe, they...
March 2015
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The Whale Graveyard Whodunit
One of the ocean's tiniest organisms often does the most harm. Microscopic algae...
March 2014
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The Discovery of Multispecies Communities of Seacows
Sirenians, or seacows, are a group of marine mammals that include manatees and...
January 2012
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What the Megalodon Left Behind
The largest shark ever to exist on this planet, Carcharocles megalodon, could grow...
July 2018
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Expedition to Excavate a Fossil Whale
My graduate student Jorge and I are departing today for Panama, to excavate a...
June 2011
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Form Equals Function for Ancient Sea Lizards and Modern Whales
In the ocean there once lived a creature built for predatory prowess. It had teeth...
April 2019
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Native Knowledge of the Narwhal
The narwhal is an elusive mammal. During the winter months they feed in the deep...
March 2020
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Dispatches from the Field: Treacherous stream crossings and a new fossil find
We departed from Port Renfrew on Tuesday morning on the Michelle Diana, a boat...
May 2012