🚨New publication alert! 🚨

We have published a new method for studying steroid hormones in tiny whale samples 🐳🐋🫍

Great news for conservation - now precious samples can be used for multiple analyses 🧬

OPEN ACCESS in @conphysjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

Some great news for a change 👏

Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park

Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park
Roughly the size of Jamaica, it is the largest marine protected area in the South Atlantic

www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

Emperor penguins, the world’s largest penguin species, are now on the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced on Thursday. nyti.ms/3OqmmwS

Why Manatees Need Humans to Slow Down and Pay Attention These gentle giants forage in shallow waters, primarily along the coast of Florida, and often have fatal encounters with boats. What can be done to help them?

Manatees forage in shallow waters, primarily along the coast of Florida, and often have fatal encounters with boats. Here are tips from wildlife experts on how humans can better coexist with the gentle giants.

I.U.C.N. Red List Moves Emperor Penguins to “Endangered” Populations are declining as climate change causes the sea ice the birds need for survival to retreat, according to researchers.

BREAKING: Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are now both considered Endangered, according to the IUCN.

As the climate warms, melting sea ice and shifting prey are pushing these species to the brink — hitting young animals the hardest. https://nyti.ms/4sUmzaC

More whales are visiting Sydney out of season. Scientists debate why The first whales swimming north for the winter have already been spotted off the coast of Sydney, while artificial intelligence is helping reduce one of the marine mammals’ deadliest direct threats.

Piece in the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social on whales off Sydney, and how to deal with vessel strike.
In 2018 when I led @fisheries.noaa.gov Northeast whale team, we won a US Public Sector Innovation Award for taking bleeding edge tech & making it simple to use for mitigating ship strike
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These Whales Live, and Sing, Near New York Harbor in Spring

New research, based on vocalizations from sei whales recorded by acoustic monitors, reveals the New York Bight is a key spring habitat for Endangered sei whales. “Right about now,” WCS’s Dr. Howard Rosenbaum tells @nytimes.com.

🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/n...

What to know about Rice's whale, a rare species in the way of Trump's plans for more Gulf drilling Scientists fear that expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could push the giant mammal to extinction.

Endangered Rice's whales live their entire lives in the gulf, where they're vulnerable to vessel strikes, noise pollution, oil spills and climate change — all of which could increase with more drilling, scientists said. https://to.pbs.org/4sUKB5a

A Rice's whale seen from above, swimming through calm, dark blue water. Text above the image reads "Trump's cabinet condemns Rice's whale to extinction."

BREAKING: Today Trump's Endangered Species Committee — much better described as the Extinction Committee — granted an unprecedented exemption to all oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico from the requirements of the ESA.

We're in court challenging this decision.

More info ➡️ bit.ly/4bVUrMV

U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act The group formally known as the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.

Breaking news: A committee led by the interior secretary voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which could threaten species facing extinction.

Environmental Advocates Slam Upcoming Meeting Of Endangered Species Committee - DeeperBlue.com Environmental advocates are decrying an upcoming meeting of the Endangered Species Committee that critics warn would drive the Rice’s whale to extinction.

The Trump administration is violating the Endangered Species Act to promote offshore drilling at the expense of endangered whales. CLF will always stand up for the Endangered Species Act and the imperiled species that it safeguards.

www.deeperblue.com/environmenta...

This is figure 1, which shows pre-birth gathering of the sperm whales of Unit A.

A paper in Scientific Reports presents detailed observations of a wild sperm whale birth off the coast of Dominica in July 2023. The findings represent the most in-depth published observations of a wild cetacean birth to date, according to the authors. go.nature.com/4sD82QE 🌍 🧪

Scientists saw a sperm whale giving birth. And then things got weird Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

Scientists saw a sperm whale giving birth. And then things got weird Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

“Gero and his colleagues show that two “matrilines”—independent, female-led groups—of sperm whales in Unit A appeared to cooperate to assist in the calf’s birth. This behavior has never been observed in such detail before in this species.”
#Whales 🧪 #Birth
www.scientificamerican.com/article/sper...

Female sperm whales support one another during the birthing journey—behavior that was long considered unique to humans and a few primates.

Read now in @science.org: bit.ly/4bIKkeo

Endangered species could lose protections so US can drill for oil The move could 'greenlight the extinction of sea turtles, whales and corals to pad the oil industry’s pockets', says an Earthjustice attorney.

The move could 'greenlight the extinction of sea turtles, whales and corals to pad the oil industry’s pockets', says an Earthjustice attorney.

Philip Hoare on William Blake and “Monstrous Pictures of Whales” The latest episode of The World in Time.

amazing interview - sort of like a waking dream...

huge thank you to Donovan Hohn and
@laphamsquarterly.bsky.social

www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/phil...

What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Evolution

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

Headbutting Behavior Between Sperm Whales Documented Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles Click on the article title to read more.

New publication!

'Headbutting Behavior Between Sperm Whales Documented Using Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles'

Out in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social in collaboration with @lrendell.bsky.social, @azwhlab.bsky.social and @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1111/mms....

‬🚨Round 3 of Uproar Conservation Challenge continues!🚨

The vaquita porpoise is still in the running thanks to you, help us keep the momentum going!

Vote at UproarChallenge.com🐬

Starts March 24 - 26 (11:59pm EDT)

Every vote helps us getting closer to the $10K prize!

#UproarChallenge

The ocean was once 10 times quieter. A 1949 whale recording proves it | Fortune A plastic disc labeled "fish noises" sat in a Woods Hole archive for 75 years, and turned out to be the oldest known recording of a humpback whale.

fortune.com/2026/03/16/o...

Animal Communication Is Far More Complex Than We Thought Mammals use a rich mix of facial cues, body language, and sounds to communicate. This complex system helps them manage social groups, maintain order, and express emotions. Research shows these interac...

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Holland & Barrett is first UK retailer to withdraw from krill market - Oceanographic Whole foods and wellbeing retailer, Holland & Barrett is the UK's first to withdraw from the krill market following talks with Sea Shepherd

Great news - The whole foods retailer @Holland&Barrett will become the UK’s 1st to fully withdraw from the #krill market by April, a decision welcomed by conservationists as a critical step toward protecting the #Antarctic’s fragile ecosystems.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/holland...

Knowing the age of #dolphins is vital for understanding population growth, reproduction, and survival, yet it is difficult to determine. Researchers tested whether X-rays of flipper bones could be used to estimate the age of common dolphins: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... #RSOS

Ghost the Right Whale Had Her Ninth Calf at Age 50. Why Is She So Rare? Her longevity hints at a century-long lifespan most of her species will never reach

Good article in @gardenandgun.com
@alaskaraven.bsky.social - “They should all be living this long and calving into their fifties, sixties, and seventies.”

"Ghost" has only ever had one entanglement. What really makes her rare is that she doesn't live off the east coast of North America
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For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills.
Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away.
doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467
📷Dan Stahler

Juvenile fossil sperm whale skeleton hanging in a museum atrium; the skull is large with a pointed snout and a large satellite dish-like supracranial basin, and short, stout flipper bones; the lower half of the skeleton is covered by a metal mesh approximating the shape of the animal when alive. The vertebral column is in a gentle S-curve.

Juvenile fossil sperm whale skeleton hanging in a museum atrium; the skull is large with a pointed snout and a large satellite dish-like supracranial basin. The rostrum is sculpted, and about 20 small pointed teeth are present in each quadrant.

Juvenile fossil sperm whale skeleton hanging in a museum atrium; the skull is large with a pointed snout and a large satellite dish-like supracranial basin, and short, stout flipper bones; the lower half of the skeleton is covered by a metal mesh approximating the shape of the animal when alive. The vertebral column is in a gentle S-curve.

#fossilfriday Skeleton of an Aulophyseter morricei calf, an extinct sperm whale from the middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed of California, on display at @nhm.org. This is one of the closest extinct relatives of the modern giant sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. #whaleontology

A group of eleven little penguins emerging from the sea on the beach after a foraging trip and heading towards the colony.

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How do penguins track their prey? GPS monitoring over 13 years showed they forage in a restricted area to reduce search times but keep changing exact locations (at 2km scale) to adapt to the dynamic environmental conditions.
bit.ly/meps15047