Researchers Find Animal That Links Whales to Land
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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Sperm whales routinely dive more than 3 km below the ocean surface to hunt for giant squid, but a study shows they suffer a chronic loss of bone tissue from the bends, a painful condition well-known to human divers.
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The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics that change in motion.
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Science & environment: Small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons 10 million years ago may have evolved into the modern whale
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A whale which hit the headlines around the world when it was stranded in the River Thames in London earlier this year was suffering from a painful form of arthritis, scientists have said.
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The blue whale, once on the verge of extinction, is making a comeback.
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Scientists believe they could be a step closer to solving the mystery of how the first birds took to the air.
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Nov. 30, 2004 - Rescuers succeeded Tuesday in saving most of the whales stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand in the past days as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of the increased beachings.
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Marine biologists say they have obtained the first proof that sharks can spot changes in magnetic fields, boosting evidence that the fish have an internal compass to guide them as well as a phenomenal sense of smell.
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster-fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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Mass strandings of marine mammals have occurred in Australia and New Zealand this week, proving an earlier predication made by Australian scientists, New Zealand Press Association said Wednesday.
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Two humpback whales that swam from the Pacific Ocean far up into Central Californiaâs inland waterways appear to be heading back toward open ocean, wildlife officials said
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Seals track prey with them, rats sense   nearby objects with them and robots could soon be using   whiskers in a similar way to see in the dark and avoid   obstacles, researchers said on Wednesday.
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In the search for a missing evolutionary link to modern whales, scientists have come up with an unlikely land cousin -- a raccoon-sized creature with the body of a small deer.
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The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.