Whale poop contains iron that may have helped fertilize past oceans
The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...
Smithsonian Magazine15h
Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn
Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...
Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...
Sacramento Bee9d
‘Extraordinary’ sea creature seen off coast of Hawaii. See photo that tells ‘a story’
Humpback whales have been known to swim 5,000 miles from tropical grounds to colder grounds for more productive feedings and usually eat small fish, straining huge amounts of water on their baleen ...
El País in English1d
Whale songs follow the laws of human languages
Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...
Los Angeles Times8d
Blunt-force trauma found on humpback whale that washed up in Huntington Beach
A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale that washed ashore in Huntington Beach last week, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.