In Argentina, the franciscana dolphin is one of the most vulnerable cetaceans regularly entangled in coastal artisanal fishery nets. The aim of this paper is to estimate the species' incidental ...

Each year, gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) complete one of the most impressive journeys in the animal kingdom. They travel thousands of miles between their Arctic feeding grounds and the ...

Today, there are two main groups of gray whales: one in the eastern North Pacific Ocean and another in the western North Pacific Ocean. These massive ocean mammals can grow nearly 50 feet long and ...

The U.S. federal government has rescinded its proposal to strengthen regulations on boat speeds along the East Coast. Fewer vessels will be required to reduce their speed, which is likely to ...

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Edited by Erik Trinkaus, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, and approved August 15, 2011 (received for review April 12, 2011) Implicit in the phylogenetic and functional evaluation of the anterior ...

On this day in 1988, Operation Breakthrough, a US-Soviet effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow, occurred. The whales’ plight generated media ...

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) off the coast of Oregon, USA, have been observed over a seven-year period. By using drone footage, the researchers could study which foraging tactics the whales ...

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is the record-holder for the longest roundtrip distance by air (44,100 miles), the Caribou travel the longest roundtrip distance on land (745 miles), and the eastern gray whale (Eschrichtius ...

Something very strange is happening to a group of about 200 whales plying the waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. “We kind of stumbled upon this change in size,” says Enrico Pirotta ...

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