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- Earth
Moby Dick meets Jaws
A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today.
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Botanical Whales
Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too.
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Book Review: The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare
Review by Sid Perkins.
- Life
One ocean, four (or more) killer whale species
A new genetic analysis splits killer whales into multiple taxa.
- Life
One ocean, four (or more) killer whale species
Killer whales may be at least four species, a new study of mitochondrial DNA shows.
- Animals
Whale hunts: Discussions on lifting the ‘ban’
The International Whaling Commission will formally address its future, next week, at a meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. Once comprised of whaling nations, the IWC now includes member states just as likely to condemn any hunting of cetaceans. That internal tension is guiding the meeting’s agenda. On it’s plate: whether to overturn the organization’s long-standing moratorium on commercial whaling.
- Life
Penguin declines may come down to krill
Lack of food appears to be hurting birds on the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Ecosystems
Sperm whales may team up to herd prey
Data recorders yield first hints of coordinated feeding behavior.
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Book Review: Shark: In Peril in the Sea by David Owen
Review by Sid Perkins.
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Sperm whales as a carbon sink
New estimates suggest the mammals’ feeding habits help take in carbon.
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Lopped Off
Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.
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2010 Science News of the Year: Life
Credit: Javier García Warming changes how and where animals live New concerns have emerged about how climate warming might challenge animals and change the way they go about their lives. For example, a coalition of lizard specialists suggests that by midcentury a third of lizard populations won’t have enough time for foraging or other vital […]
