22-01-22 In New Zealand, southern right whales were hunted to near extinction about a century ago. Since that time, the population has slowly recovered. 在新西兰，南露脊鲸在大约一个世纪前被捕杀至濒临灭绝。但自那时起，其数量就缓慢回升。 Dr Emma Carroll, Unive...

21-04-01 一项新的研究表明，鲸鱼被渔网缠住的风险似乎被低估了。无人机拍摄的照片上显示，在加拿大圣劳伦斯湾，多达 60% 的蓝鲸与渔绳和渔网接触过，因为从照片中能看到它们身上的疤痕。 Getting caught up in fishing ropes or nets is one of the biggest threats to whales....

16-08-08 All living toothed whales rely upon echoes of their own calls to navigate and hunt underwater, a skill that works best in conjunction with high-frequency hearing. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4 who s...

16-07-11 For the first time in New Zealand waters an extremely rare grouping of Shepherds Beaked Whales has been spotted from a University of Otago research vessel off the coast of the city of Dunedin in the South Island. Dr Will Rayment, from Otagos Departm...

16-02-13 Children's singer and songwriter Raffi may have brought beluga whales into popular culture with his 1980 song Baby Beluga, but surprisingly little is actually known about the life and ecology of these elusive marine mammals that live in some of the...

15-12-21 A hacking group said on Thursday it has crashed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official website to protest Japan's plans to hunt whales. 一黑客组织称周四已攻陷日本首相安倍晋三的官方网站，以此抗议日本的捕鲸计划。 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga t...

15-10-05 As the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, blue whales maintain their enormous body size through efficient foraging strategies that optimize the energy they gain from the krill they eat, while also conserving oxygen when diving and holding...

15-03-30 The dolphins quarrelled with the whales, and before very long they began fighting with one another. The battle was very fierce, and had lasted some time without any sign of coming to an end, when a sprat thought that perhaps he could stop it; so he...

14-12-23 Here's a nice surprise: quantum physics is less complicated than we thought. An international team of researchers has proved that two peculiar features of the quantum world previously considered distinct are different manifestations of the same thin...