Tag: Marine

Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) mothers are producing more pups, which then go on to mature at younger ages. According to a new project, which drew from indigenous subsistence hunters in...

A new review of the levels of human-generated noise and the marine mammals exposed to it shows that some animals may be more sensitive than scientists previously thought. Porpoises, in...

Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) biologists have combined forces with archaeologists to develop new ways to track past activity of the marine mammals. The collaboration could help inform conservationists and biologist...

As funding is harder and harder to find for wildlife researchers, some are searching for novel ways to conduct their studies. In a new study published in the Wildlife Society...

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are not like other marine mammals. Although, their whiskers are robust and thick like their seal and sea lion counterparts, they never traded their front paws for...

A new study has found that bottlenose dolphins in Florida’s Sarasota Bay have been exposed to a chemical compounds used in a range of cleaning products, cosmetics, plastics and other...

As marine mammals evolved, they lost the ability to make a protein that defends land-dwelling mammals from the effects of a common pesticide — one that is increasingly finding its...

The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5515) made it through the May 9 House Armed Service Committee markup hearing with some policy riders that could affect federal wildlife management...

The National Marine Fisheries Service has announced its intent to conduct five-year status reviews for three endangered whale species. These include the endangered fin whale (Baleaenoptera physalus), sei whale (Baleaenoptera...

An interdisciplinary team in the United Kingdom has designed a “sonic kayak” that researchers and citizen scientists can use to eavesdrop on the ecosystem below and obtain underwater sound and...