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New study demonstrates how whales protect their brains while swimming
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): According to a new study, unique blood arteries in whale brains may protect whales from dangerous blood pulses caused by swimming.
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Study reveals how whales shield themselves from brain damage while swimmin
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): According to a recent study, special blood arteries in whale brains may shield whales against harmful pulses in their blood created by swimming.
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Climate change predicts a southward shift of New Zealand's great whale spe
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Palmerston North [New Zealand], August 8 (ANI): A new study sheds light on the effects of climate change on the distribution of great whales in New Zealand waters.
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Large groups of southern fin whales documented in the Antarctic, after the
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 8 (ANI): After blue whales, fin whales are the largest whales in the world and human beings have hunted both species to near-extinction. After the ban on commercial whaling in 1976, the stocks of these long-lived, but slow-growing creatures are rebounding: researchers h
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Study finds small water samples can find really big animals
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 2 (ANI): A team of scientists used an emerging genetic tool that analyses DNA in water samples to detect big animals like whales and dolphins in New York waters.
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Researchers find high levels of contaminants in killer whales
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 20 (ANI): A study has demonstrated that new types of brominated flame retardants accumulate in the tissues of killer whales near Norway and are also passed on to nursing offspring.
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At least 9 pilot whales dead in mass stranding in New Zealand's Golden Bay
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], February 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Forty-nine pilot whales have got stranded in shallow waters in New Zealand's Golden Bay and nine of them died, the country's Conservation Department said on Monday.
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Grey seals can also use their flippers to communicate during breeding seas
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 3 (ANI): A new study by a team of Monash University researchers suggests that grey seals can communicate not just using their voice, but also by clapping with their flippers.
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Study reveals lights on fishnets save turtles, dolphins
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Dec 8 (ANI): Flora and fauna form the essential components of the environment. While underwater species from an indistinctive section of the ecosystem including dolphins and turtles and other sea creatures. Researchers have now come up with a study to save turtles and d
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Puducherry: This scuba diver has made an underwater friend
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Puducherry [India], June 20(ANI): Arvind, who runs a scuba diving school in Pondicherry from the last 10 years has recently made an underwater friend, a rare whalefish. He also gives training to people in many departments of scuba diving.
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Here's what is affecting the movement of right whales
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): The researchers found a connection between recent changes in the movement of North Atlantic right whales to decreased food availability and rising temperatures in Gulf of Maine's deep waters.
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New Zealand: 145 pilot whales dead in latest stranding
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Stewart Island [New Zealand], Nov 26 (ANI): Around 145 pilot whales have died in New Zealand in the latest stranding on a beach on Stewart Island.
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