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Let’s dive deeper into the life of Alaska’s oldest resident and explore what makes this whale an extraordinary marvel of the natural world. Bowhead Whale. Image via Wikimedia commons. The bowhead ...
For the first time in recorded history, a group of bowhead whales has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia, far south of their typical Arctic habitat. Researchers from the University of ...
Potential impact on whales overlooked as deep-sea mining looks set to start, experts say ...
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Comparative analysis of protein sequences across 107 mammalian species identified specific posttranslational modifications (PTMs) enriched in long-lived mammals ...
In a groundbreaking paleontological discovery that has stunned the scientific community, researchers have unearthed the fossilized jawbone of an ancient whale species that appears to have been ...
Other mammal babies nurse by drawing the milk out through their mother’s ... A toothed whale may nurse her baby anywhere from 12-36 months. Alternatively, a bowhead whale nurses her baby for 6-12 ...
The Southern Resident killer whale baby was discovered April 6 in the Salish Sea, the Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post. The pod was swimming past Victoria Harbour, which is on ...
A new baby orca born to J Pod is a ray of hope for the endangered southern resident killer whales. J63 was spotted by Mark Malleson, field biologist for the Center for Whale Research, on April 6.
Remove term: coming to Orange County as part of “Streams of Hope&#x2122 coming to Orange County as part of “Streams of Hope” A sprawling exhibition of 40 brightly decorated baby gray whale murals is ...
Video filmed by a whale watching company off the Coast of San Diego shows a mature orca teaching its younger calf how to hunt. The group of killer whales was first spotted further north ...
It will then swallow the leftover fish trapped between its baleen hairs and in its mouth. Skim feeders, such as bowhead whales, will swim much more slowly through the water towards groups of fish, ...
The calf was born into the L Pod — one of the family groups that make up the West Coast's endangered southern killer whale community. The sex of the new baby orca, L125, has not yet been confirmed.