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Following a public outcry, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it has denied the Georgia Aquarium's request for a permit to import 18 beluga whales from Russia.
Read moreA difficulty in obtaining information about the natural behaviour of wild animals is that detailed observations of the activities of different individuals is necessary over long periods of time.
Read moreSharks have a very different set of senses than we do, yet the eyesight of the free swimming species is good, so when they look at you, they are seeing you.
Read moreScientists working on the Southern California Behavioral Response Study tagged the whales in the California Bight with non-invasive suction cups, which recorded acoustic data and high-resolution movements as the animals were exposed to the control
Read moreNOAA had been investigating the great white population since last year, when the environmental groups Oceana, Shark Stewards and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition calling for endangered species protection.
Read moreWhen carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater, various species convert it to organic carbon and other organic components during photosynthesis.
Read moreThe gray whale is distributed in an eastern North Pacific (North American) population and a critically endangered western North Pacific (Asian) population.
Read moreIn a new study, scientists have revealed the diving behaviour of sharks appears to be influenced by the moon, water temperature and time of day.
Read moreThey have localized several such areas along the coastlines of Florida and California, where more than two thirds of all shark attacks take place in the United States, examining the regions where attacks rarely happen as well as those already know
Read moreWobbegongs—also commonly known as carpet sharks due to their velvety and highly ornamented livery—are currently grouped into three genera and eleven species.
Read moreThis changes their camouflage so that they are very well camouflaged against the yellow sand during the day, and dark at night - we think to blend in with shadows on the beach.
Individuals did not change colour when put into dark conditions, but they did become brighter when placed on a white versus a black substrate. Our findings show that ghost crabs have a circadian rhythm of colour change mediating camouflage, which is fine-tuned by adaptation to the background brightness.
Read moreIn addition to acting as a built-in lamp and using the bacteria at night as an antipredatory camouflage while it ventures out to hunt, the bacteria also control when the squid expresses a gene that synchronizes, circadian rhythms in the s
Read moreThese impulses are transmitted in complex patterns which researchers—after painstaking investigation aided by decoders and software from the intelligence community—have now demonstrated illicit an underlying grammatical structure not unlike that o
Read moreIn 2009, Mote Marine Laboratory with the National Aquarium in Baltimore initiated a conservation research program on the life history, reproduction, and population status of the elasmobranch Aetobatus narinari, commonly known as the spotted eagle
,We don't know if the rays in the Keys come from Southwest Florida, or perhaps even Mexico or Cuba, and we don't know if rays in the Keys favor particular reefs
—Mote biologist Kim Hull
Read moreThe researchers found that Stingray City's stingrays show distinctly different patterns of activity than their wild counterparts, who don't enjoy daily feedings or close human contact.
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