Scientists looking for wayward whales
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More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have finally found their way home Wednesday.
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AP DE BON DESIR, Quebec, Aug. 11 - A few miles from this spit along the pink granite coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, there is a sheltered cove that has witnessed the full span of the human relationship with whales.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have found their way home Wednesday.
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Wearing tags traditionally used for tracking, the marine recruits are helping scientists collect data that could one day be used to generate ocean forecasts.
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By TERENCE CHEA RIO VISTA, Calif. - Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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A study to be released this week will show that an endangered species of whales is under threat from a Royal Dutch/Shell-led energy project off Russia's Pacific coast, conservation group WWF said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Sperm whales routinely dive more than two miles below the ocean surface to hunt for giant squid, but a study shows the huge mammals suffer a chronic loss of bone tissue from the bends, a painful condition well-known to human divers.
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After a two-week sojourn through a Northern California river delta, two lost whales were moving closer to an ocean homecoming.
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River were spotted Tuesday morning just beyond a bridge where they had stopped a day earlier, a delay that worried scientists hoping to get them back to the ocean.
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Four endangered whales have been found dead in the past six weeks &#151; including two just this week, scientists said.
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The North Atlantic right whale, western wolverine and the dromedary jumping-slug on Canada's Pacific coast will soon share a dubious distinction.
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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.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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North Pacific albatrosses are equipped with sensor tags to gather sea-surface data which satellites sometimes miss.
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A humpback whale and her calf that have captivated the San Francisco Bay area for two weeks made progress in finding their way back to open waters.  Late Tuesday night, the U.S.
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A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.