Marine mammals

More than 2,000 individuals have died in the past two years due to habitat loss and pollution. Photo courtesy of Save The Manatee Club

The fight for the future of manatees: from Trump to seagrass

What is a manatee and why is it important to protect it? While river otters are in danger around the world, their protection in Florida is undergoing a shake-up
The researchers discovered that the seals make nine types of calls that were not known until now. Photographer: Giuseppe Zibordi Credit: Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDIS, ORA

How does a seal do?

A new study reveals that the rare species of seals living in Antarctica make sounds outside the range of human hearing.
Black balena and puppy. The remaining population suffers from a limited genetic diversity that harms the reproduction and restoration potential. Photo: NOAA

Just before they disappear

Although, in recent decades, whaling has been completely banned, except for the granting of individual permits to local fishermen in countries such as Iceland and Greenland, but despite this, the baleen populations continue to disappear, and conservationists, environmentalists and marine biologists
blue whale FROM PIXABAY.COM

The whales have evolved to gigantic dimensions only recently

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A fin whale during a meal. Photo: David Rosen / flickr.

What do whales talk about while eating?

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Pictured are modern dolphins and an ichthyosaurus, an extinct marine reptile. Each came from a different land group, but independently they adapted to life at sea. image courtesy of Lindgren et. al, Nature Publishing Group

The repeated evolution of land creatures that move to the sea depends on changes in the marine environment

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A dolphin raises its head above the water. Photo: shutterstock

A behavioral experiment showed that dolphins are also affected by magnetic fields

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Winter the dolphin. Credit: Courtesy of Hangar Ltd

The story of a dolphin / Emily Anthis

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A dead whale on Bat Galim beach in Haifa, April 1, 2006. Photo: Haifa University. From the Mahmal'i website

Conservation of marine mammals

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Set foot on the evolution of whales and dolphins

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A skeleton of a 12 m long whale will be displayed at the University of Haifa

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

This is how whales sleep

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The dolphin from Sinai found in humans a substitute for its own kind

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