Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deadly virus is striking Arctic whales. Humpback whales in Norway, along with one sperm whale and one pilot whale, were found to ...

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Scientists have discovered a deadly virus in the breath of whales that is causing mass deaths among the mammals in the Arctic Circle. Using drones, special equipment was flown through the exhaled ...

Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is obviously exciting, it has also revealed a worrying presence in Arctic ...

An aggregation of adult beluga whales in a bay during the summer in the High Arctic. Beluga whales indulge in wife swapping to enhance their long term survival chances, reveals new research. (Greg ...

In northern Norway, scientists detected a disease-causing virus in humpback whales by flying drones over them. It is the first time the virus, known as cetacean morbillivirus, has been identified in ...