#whales — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whales, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🌀 Researchers used X-ray CT and #microscopy to map a #narwhal tusk in #3D.
They found a second, inner spiral running opposite the outer one, a #doublehelix that keeps the #tusk stiff yet flexible, letting it bend without cracking. They hope the tusk’s growth layers record changing #ocean conditions over the #animal’s long life.
👉 https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/x-rays-add-new-twist-to-narwhals-spiral-tusk/
#science #marinebiology #biology #whales #arctic #materials #ctscan #nature #biomechanics #wildlife
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Double spiral inside narwhal tusks may explain their resistance to bending https://phys.org/news/2026-08-spiral-narwhal-tusks-resistance.html🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Narwhal
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Whales spark joy in New York but face threats from boat traffic https://phys.org/news/2026-08-whales-joy-york-threats-boat.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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Narwhal tusks are twisty, magical mathematical marvels
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.popsci.com/environment/narwhal-tusk-twist/
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I ended up in the belly of a blue whale - I won't forget the experience anytime soon
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/europe/ended-up-belly-blue-whale-37551242
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#PygmyBlueWhale beaches & dies off #NT coast in first sighting for #GulfOfCarpentaria
The #whale has died after becoming #stranded off the coast of #GrooteEylandt in the #NorthernTerritory on Friday.
Researchers believe it is the first time a pygmy blue whale has ever been sighted in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Is anyone here in #Andalusia, #Spain from 17.9.26 to 17.10.26. I will be #backpacking then to explore #culture and #nature there and would love to see where #Lynx 🐈 and #whales live 🐬 .
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270,000 Square Miles Around Easter Island to Become Indigenous-Managed Ocean Reserve
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Southern right whales have bumpy ‘fingerprints’ on their heads
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New Family of Oceanic Squid Discovered After 70 Years in Storage https://spacedaily.com/t-sperm-whale-stomach-new-squid-family-mobydickia/ 🐋
#Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Squid #DeepSea #Cephalopod -
⟦Taylor et al.⟧ Comparing Drone and Vessel‐Based Imaging to Quantify Epibiont Coverage on Humpback Whales https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70255?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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⟦Slesser at al.⟧ Sex Ratio, Pregnancy Status, and Blubber Testosterone Concentrations of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on Foraging Grounds in the Southwestern Atlantic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70266?af=R 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
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After commercial whaling nearly erased them, blue and fin whales are slowly reclaiming the southeast Atlantic https://phys.org/news/2026-04-commercial-whaling-erased-blue-fin.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Whaling
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The sights and sounds of these magnificent creatures are exhilarating.
A pod off Cape Cod.🐋
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds
By Ashifa Kassam in MadridMarine conservationist says deliberate attack would be ‘act of extreme cruelty’ against endangered population
#Whales #Spain #Europe #Worldnews #Environment #Cetaceans #Marinelife #Wildlife #TheGuardian #AshifaKassaminMadrid
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Iberian orca known for ramming boats seen with suspected gunshot wounds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/14/iberian-orca-known-for-ramming-boats-seen-with-suspected-gunshot-wounds #Whales #Spain #Europe #WorldNews #Environment #Cetaceans #MarineLife #Wildlife
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Corky II has been confined and forced to perform tricks for over five decades. 💔
Please urge SeaWorld to finally release her to an accredited sanctuary 👇
https://veganfta.com/petitions/release-corky-the-longest-held-captive-orca-in-the-world/
#emptythetanks #orca #whales -
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦊🐋 #Indohyus was a #fox-sized, semi-aquatic mammal that lived in and around the coast of an island #India 49 to 45 million years ago.
#Fossil evidence, including a #skull accidentally broken in the lab in 2007, showed whale-like inner-ear #bones that placed it as the closest non-whale relative of all modern #whales. It gave rise to #Pakicetus and a chain of increasingly aquatic ancestors leading to today’s toothed and #baleen whales.
👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/prehistoric-life/indohyus
#evolution #paleontology #cetaceans #eocene #marine #biology #animals #wildlife #mammals #hippos #bluewhales #dogs #pigs
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University of Hawaii: Tagging whales from the sky: New methods revolutionize research. “Marine mammal research has attained new heights as scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are deploying noninvasive suction-cup tags onto humpback whales using drones. Traditionally, researchers from the Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) in the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology approached […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/12/tagging-whales-from-the-sky-new-methods-revolutionize-research-university-of-hawaii/ -
It’s hard to imagine the largest animal that’s ever lived - the blue whale - can trace its family tree back to this small, pig-like mammal…
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Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder?
By Constance Malleret in Rio de JaneiroThe gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist
#Whales #Brazil #RiodeJaneiro #Americas #Cetaceans #Environment #Marinelife #Worldnews #Wildlife #Biology #TheGuardian #ConstanceMalleretinRiodeJaneiro
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Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/12/humpbacks-return-to-rio-the-whales-are-back-from-the-brink-of-extinction-but-will-tourism-help-or-hinder #Whales #Brazil #RioDeJaneiro #Americas #Cetaceans #Environment #MarineLife #WorldNews #Wildlife #Biology
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Young volunteer attempts to keep stranded humpback whale alive on Queensland beach – video
By Guardian StaffChantelle Smith was with her daughter on Sunday morning on K'gari when they came across a stranded juvenile humpback whale. After she recorded this footage, a number of other local volunteers arrived to keep the animal wet. The juvenile mammal became trapped on a sandbank at the southern entrance of Wathumba Creek, sparking an immediate rescue effort from local beachgoers and wildlife authorities. A spokesperson for the Department of Environment confirmed that the whale managed to free itself and return to the ocean
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🎵 In 1984-85, thousands of belugas trapped in #Arctic pack #ice off #Russia’s #Chukchi Peninsula faced starvation.
The #icebreaker Moskva crushed an escape channel, playing #classical #music to coax the herd forward. Roughly 2,000 survived and about 1,000 died, though the music’s role stayed unverified.
#beluga #whales #marine #rescue #animals #behavior #ocean #conservation #engineering #history #sovietunion #ussr #wildlife #marinebiology #biology #science