After a massive sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket, responders are examining it and making plans for what comes next.
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Hawaiian pilot whales eat a shocking amount of squid every single day
Hawaiʻi’s offshore waters host roughly 8,000 short-finned pilot whales. On an ecosystem scale, their collective appetite is ...
Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...
One of Trevor Barrett’s excavators and a Robert B. Our tugboat were used to remove the dead sperm whale from Nantucket’s ...
A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...
The whale, which washed up on Sunday, had its jaw excised to prevent thieves from stealing its teeth, officials said.
The 50-foot-long dead sperm whale that washed up Sunday on Nantucket will be taken back to sea to decompose for safety ...
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Sperm whales may have a human-like language: New study reveals vowel patterns in whale communication
New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like ...
Professor Jonathan Wittenberg used this model of sperm whale myoglobin structure as a teaching tool at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in the Bronx. It was used beginning ...
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