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Blue whales roll with it
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Blue whales pirouette for food
The juggernauts of the sea are nimble giants at feeding time, video footage reveals.
- Zoe Corbyn
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How to avoid the pitfalls of inbreeding
By balancing self-fertilization with occasional sex, a small marine fish maintains a robust immune system.
- Janelle Weaver
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Whale woe in the Atlantic
Four decades of data show most whale deaths were caused by humans.
- Daniel Cressey
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Seals see glowing prey
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Whaling: Ways to agree on quotas
- Justin G. Cooke
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Whales for sale
A quota-trading scheme could end conflict between whalers and conservationists.
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A market approach to saving the whales
The future of the International Whaling Commission is tenuous. A 'whale conservation market' might rescue it, say Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines.
- Christopher Costello
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Conservation: Harpoons and heartstrings
A history of cetacean research highlights its precarious place between whaling and politics, finds Philip Hoare.
- Philip Hoare
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Migration tracking reveals marine Serengeti
Decade of tagging has mapped predatorial pathways in the north Pacific Ocean.
- Zoë Corbyn
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Wayward whale not a fluke
Warming Arctic cited as likely cause of freak migration.
- Nadia Drake
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Books in brief
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Whales found where whaling was
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Orcas find shark diet a real grind
Killer whales wear their teeth to the gums by gnawing on the big fish.
- Nicola Jones
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Narwhals transmit climate data from Arctic seas
Marine mammals armed with thermometers return temperature readings from icy Baffin Bay.
- Lucas Laursen
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Humpback whale breaks migration record
Swim from Brazil to Madagascar is longest known.
- Janelle Weaver
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Animal behaviour: Same-shaped shoals
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Marine biology: Charismatic carbon
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The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru
Modern sperm whales have relatively small teeth and feed by suction, but the discovery of large teeth in the fossil record suggests that raptorial sperm whales once existed. Here the authors report the discovery of the teeth and jaws of a fossil raptorial sperm whale from the Middle Miocene of Peru, almost as large as a modern sperm whale but with a three-metre head and jaws full of teeth, some 36cm long.
- Olivier Lambert
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Call me Leviathan melvillei
Sperm whale fossil has the biggest whale bite ever seen.
- Janet Fang
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Biogeochemistry: Faecal fertilization
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Timing is everything for sharks that smell in stereo
Sharks sniff out their prey using the timing of scents, not concentration.
- Janet Fang
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Endangered-porpoise numbers fall to just 250
Time is running out for vanishing vaquitas.
- Rex Dalton
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Ecology: What's that whale?
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Population genetics: Nautical niches
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Proposal sets whaling limits
Conservative hunting quotas require more scientific data.
- Janet Fang
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Illegal whale meat tracked back to Japan
Researchers identify sashimi from restaurants in California and South Korea.
- Amber Dance
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Whale sedation aids conservation
Marine biologists look for better ways to save whales tangled in fishing gear.
- Daniel Cressey
The whale that talked