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The foraging strategy may help humpbacks be more resilient to food scarcity, emphasizing the importance of preserving their ...

Shark teeth are “highly developed weapons built for cutting flesh, not resisting ocean acid,” Baum said. Sharks will go ...

How scientists use underwater recordings to locate, identify, and understand some of the planet’s most enigmatic cetaceans, ...

North Atlantic right whales were detected east of Ocean City, Maryland, in December 2025. Several Slow Zones are in effect along the East Coast, including areas near Maryland, Virginia, and North ...

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The comedian Fred Armisen has a thing for sound. He’s a former punk musician and a master of accents, and he is now releasing a new album of sound effects. “I was lamenting that there aren’t ...

Pilot whales don't typically summer in Rye's Milton Harbor. Until one did. A pilot whale, one presumes, could summer wherever it wants. For five days in August 1993, a sickly wayward whale trekked ...

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects, and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the "echoic return signal" ...

The Arctic's sea ice is shrinking by 12.2% every decade, and it's having a devastating effect on the wildlife that depend on it. Gray whales, which were once on the road to recovery after near ...