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9-foot-long Great white shark pinged swimming off Jersey Shore
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (36+ words) The 9-foot-long Great White Shark is working its way up the Jersey Shore, last pinged off the coast of Ship Bottom on Tuesday. 9-foot-long Great white shark pinged swimming off Jersey Shore...
Watch: Cape Town's brave loggerhead turtle fights back after life-saving amputation
10+ hour, 36+ min ago (389+ words) Habanero, a loggerhead turtle, fought for survival after a stranding. His story reveals insights into ocean health, parasitic threats, and pioneering veterinary surgery. Poor Habanero, a giant turtle, was found covered in tiny, blood-sucking leeches that made him very sick....
Prolonged Suffering: Saving entangled marine giants: early intervention matters
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (502+ words) When a humpback whale became entangled in a craypot line off Kaik'ura last week, witnesses described it thrashing in distress for ten minutes before eventually freeing itself. It was a fortunate outcome. In one recent Australian case, rescuers removed hundreds…...
How Two Maverick Whales Just Rewrote the Marine Biology Textbooks - AOL
6+ day, 43+ min ago (585+ words) But nature loves to shatter our neat little categories. A groundbreaking international study published in Royal Society Open Science has completely disrupted our understanding of whale geography. Researchers have confirmed that two individual humpback whales made mind-boggling journeys between the…...
Belugas Recognize Themselves: New Research Strengthens the Case for Whales
16+ hour, 14+ min ago (316+ words) For much of modern history, humans viewed self-awareness as a trait that separated us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Research led by Sea Shepherd board member Diana Reiss has helped steadily dismantle that idea. A marine mammal scientist…...
Critically endangered right whales just had their biggest baby boom since 2009
16+ hour, 41+ min ago (520+ words) North Atlantic right whales were once hunted so heavily that they were pushed to the brink of disappearance. A rare piece of good news has arrived for one of the world's most endangered whales: North Atlantic right whales welcomed 23 calves…...
Sightings of two largest whale species offers fresh survival hope
17+ hour, 5+ min ago (630+ words) Increased sightings of the world's two largest whale species offers fresh hope for the future of the endangered ocean giants, say scientists. More than 40 years since the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of…...
China could lose $1. 5 billion seafood market as US petition targets shark finning
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (643+ words) "Losing sharks wouldn't just be an ecological disaster; it would be a profound moral failure." A petition drawing attention to a crisis involving both shark deaths and the treatment of migrant workers on distant-water fishing vessels could put billions of…...
New Local Player in the Whale Watching Industry
21+ hour, 9+ min ago (755+ words) Ballina's whale watching industry is set to expand with the launch of a new locally owned tourism venture as this year's humpback whale migration season begins. The first whales have already been spotted offshore, with numbers expected to increase significantly…...
What's lurking offshore? Local experts talk shark safety
20+ hour ago (417+ words) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas " After a recent shark attack off the coast of Galveston left a teenager injured, local lifeguards and shark experts in the Coastal Bend are reminding beachgoers and fishermen to stay alert as summer activity ramps up along…...