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Scientists track new predator as it moves into Arctic waters — here's why this could be catastrophic for the rest of the world
The discovery was a surprise to even the research team. Scientists track new predator as it moves into Arctic waters — here's ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
How do whales avoid being detected by orcas? Their singing plays a role, study finds
Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing at ...
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When the Civil War came to Alaska
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...
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Whale species speak quietly to avoid being heard by killer whales, new study shows
A new study by Trevor Branch at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences shows that some species of baleen whales ...
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Some whales sing low enough to be ’acoustically invisible’ to killer whales: research
The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...