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The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

For the fourth year in a row, estimated annual births outnumbered deaths for the critically endangered species.

The absence of zombie worms on these bones suggests that the expanding oxygen minimum zones in the northeast Pacific and ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

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The animal’s death serves as a warning about the state of marine life in the face of the constant threat in our waters.

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Unlike other baleens like the fin whale, humpback, and blue whale, the North Atlantic right whale has been slow to recover.