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News Articles: whales

A new study finds that toothed whales can make a range of vocalizations, including some akin to human 'vocal fry,' thanks to a special nasal structure.

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Toothed whales use 'vocal fry' to hunt for food, scientists say

New research suggests that vocal fry among toothed whales is what gives them the ability to echolocate, hunting down their prey with the loudest sounds produced by any animal on the planet.

March 03, 2023
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  • Ari Daniel
The research vessel “Song of the Whale” was docked along the Savannah River on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

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  • Environment

North Atlantic right whale research boat docks in Savannah for public tours

Scientists aboard the sailboat Song of the Whale conduct research on the critically endangered species.

January 30, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
A photo released by the New Zealand Department of Conservation on April 5, 2018, shows beached pilot whales in Haast, a city on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island.

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  • Animals

Recent whale strandings highlight the mystery that still baffles marine scientists

A recent stranding on remote New Zealand islands left nearly 500 pilot whales dead. Scientists still don't know for sure why the events, also known as beachings, occur, but they have some ideas.

October 15, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
A string of dead pilot whales line the beach at Tupuangi Beach in New Zealand's Chatham Archipelago, on Saturday.

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  • Animals

477 stranded whales die on remote New Zealand islands

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

October 12, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This image from a video shows rescuers in shallow waters with whales near Strahan, Australia, on Thursday.

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  • Animals

32 pilot whales have been rescued out of 230 stranded in Tasmania

The whales were found stranded on the remote west coast of Australia's island state of Tasmania. A marine biologist said the dead animals would be tested for toxins that might explain the disaster.

September 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This photo released by Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania, shows whales stranded on Ocean Beach on the west coast of Tasmania of Australia, Sept. 21, 2022.

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  • Animals

Rescue efforts are beginning in Tasmania to save more than 200 beached whales

A stranded whale pod on Tasmania's west coast appears to be pilot whales and at least half are presumed to still be alive, local government officials said Wednesday.

September 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
One of 14 dead sperm whales lies washed up on a beach at King Island, north of Tasmania, Australia, on Tuesday.

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  • Animals

14 young sperm whales are found dead, beached on an Australian island

Australian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of the whales, which were discovered Monday on Tasmania's King Island, off the southeastern coast.

September 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A helicopter and a rescue boat search for survivors off the coast of Kaikoura, New Zealand, on Saturday.

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A boat capsized after a possible collision with a whale. 5 people are dead

Another six people who had been on the boat off New Zealand were rescued. A local mayor says the water was dead calm and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.

September 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Beluga whale swims in the lock of Notre Dame de la Garenne in Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne, west of Paris, France, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. During Wednesday's rescue operation, the dangerously thin animal began to have breathing difficulties, and experts decided the most humane thing to do was to euthanize the creature.

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  • Environment

Stranded whale dies after a rescue operation to remove it from a French river

A veterinarian said that during the rescue operation, the dangerously thin white mammal began to have breathing difficulties, and so experts decided to humanely euthanize the creature.

August 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, a North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing rope is sighted on Dec. 2, 2021, with a newborn calf near Cumberland Island, Ga.

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  • Environment

Whale entanglements may be dropping but the threat remains, feds say

Entanglement in fishing gear is one of the two biggest threats to declining species of whales, along with collisions with ships.

June 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A pair of North Atlantic right whales surface.

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  • News

Right whales struggle off of Georgia's coast

This year's North Atlantic right whale calving season has ended with 15 calves spotted off the Georgia, Florida and Carolina coasts. It's not enough.

April 22, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami in 1995. The park's new owners will no longer stage shows with its aging orca under an agreement with federal regulators.

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  • Animals

The Miami Seaquarium is ending shows with Lolita, its 56-year-old orca

Lolita was captured five decades ago in the Puget Sound. Animal rights activists say she's the oldest orca in captivity and should live her final years back home in a seaside sanctuary.

March 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
a right whale mother and calf

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  • Animals

It's 'Whale Week' — when endangered right whales return to coastal Georgia waters

Whale Week is underway in Savannah, Ga., from Nov. 15 through Nov. 21, 2021. Each year between November and April, endangered North Atlantic right whales, Georgia's official state marine mammal, migrate to the Southeast's warmer waters to calve. All Things Considered host Rickey Bevington talks to Paulita Bennett-Martin, a co-founder of Whale Week.

November 15, 2021
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  • Rickey Bevington
Scientists investigate a humpback whale by boat and by drone in the surface waters near the west Antarctic Peninsula.

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  • Science

The biggest whales can eat the equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs in one day

Scientists have gotten the best estimates yet of exactly how much baleen whales, the largest animals on the planet, can consume in one day. Their caloric intake is mind-boggling.

November 03, 2021
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A group of scientists have discovered a fossil of a now-extinct whale with four legs. This visual reconstruction shows <em>Phiomicetus</em> a<em>nubis</em> preying on a sawfish.

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  • Animals

Scientists Discover Fossil Of A 4-Legged Whale With A Raptor-Like Eating Style

Are you terrified yet? Because we certainly are. Scientists even named their discovery of a 43 million-year-old fossil after Anubis, an Egyptian god associated with death.

August 27, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
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