The tale of the vengeful whale that took out the Essex, a whaling-ship, has now been adapted in true swashbuckling style.
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The clash between Australia and Japan over whaling is undermining science-based environmental law.
Japan’s whaling fleet will leave port today to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean as part of its new scientific program, NEWREP-A.
Why are some southern right whale populations not recovering as fast as we hoped? The answer may be in their migrations.
Sometimes extraordinary species really do appear to come back from the dead.
They are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet, but family ties can lead them into danger
Chalk it up as a rare conservation win: humpback whales have bounced back so strongly since the whaling era that there is no longer a need to include them on Australia’s official threatened species list.
The Great Barrier Reef is home to some 1,600 species of bony fish, 130 sharks and rays, and turtles, mammals and more. Most have had no population monitoring, meaning we don’t know how well they are faring.
Japan’s proposed new program to kill whales for science has been rejected by an international expert panel.
Dead whales can cost beachside ratepayers a lot to clean up. The alternative is to tow them away before they wash up - but the legal question of who does the job is far more complex than it sounds.
The Natural History Museum’s plan to remove “Dippy”, the cast of a diplodocus skeleton, from its entrance hall, and replace it with a genuine skeleton of a blue whale has been met with outrage. The #savedippy…
This week, Japan announced a research plan for its New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean, to replace previous programs. In March this year, Japan’s previous whaling program, JARPA…
Minke whales have been discovered to skim just below the sea ice to feed on krill, which was a unique type of whale-feeding…
When commercial whaling was banned in 1986 it put an end to a harvest that threatened the existence of some of the most majestic animals on Earth. With several species reduced to tiny fractions of their…
Nutrient-rich whale poo may help to sustain fish stocks and promote productivity in ocean feeding grounds. These findings…
The residents of Trout River in Newfoundland, Canada have a stinking whale of a problem. What to do with the 81-feet-carcass of Balaenoptera musculus on their shore? While such an occurrence is not uncommon…
A unique underwater sound that has been puzzling scientists since the 1960s has been identified as belonging to Antarctic…
A new species of deep-diving, beaked whale has been discovered during a study of seven animals stranded on tropical islands…
A new species of beaked whale has been described by researchers from the University of New South Wales. This elusive species…
We might only notice whales when they appear in our world, but beyond the scopes of whale watchers, whales and dolphins live rich - and noisy - lives. In fact scientists are only just beginning to understand…
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Whale Scientist and Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University
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Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Adjunct Professor, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor Evolution & Ecology, UNSW
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Reader in Biology, University of St Andrews
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Honorary Professor at Bangor University; Director of Sea Watch Foundation, Bangor University
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Adjunct Research Associate, Monash University
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Senior Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Senior Researcher in Marine Biology, Aarhus University
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Lecturer, UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Antarctic Law Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Lecturer in Ecology, Scotland's Rural College