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You will find a wide and varied world full of life when you descend into the deep blue sea. Among the ocean’s inhabitants, ...
Scientist Roger Payne was the first to discover that whales could sing in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda.
Blue whales have been singing less, and it could be a bellwether of climate change. Warming oceans affect the availability of ...
Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found.
Whale songs provide key insight into ocean ecology, allowing scientists to make estimations on the prevalence of the species ...
Sounding the alarm. The sound of the blue whale’s singing has decreased off the coast of California, frightening scientists ...
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest ...
When Anderson arrived, she said she watched four blue whales that were likely feeding on krill in the area. They typically ...
The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims ...
A blue whale’s main artery is so big that a human could swim through it, but it’s generally not advised. A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen beetle, but its steering is rubbish.
We had never seen a blue whale that close to shore.” By 2011, there was a surge of blue whales nearly every day during the summer — a total of 752 sightings, according to the Dana Wharf logs.