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A single whale shark swam 1,200 kilometers from Madagascar to the Seychelles, the first time the world’s biggest fish has been tracked making the crossing

A whale shark first photographed off Nosy Be, Madagascar, on 26 November 2019 has been confirmed as the same individual later ...

Centuries-old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near-extinction

Bowhead whales have the greatest life-span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to ...
The Guardian

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last ...

2 Humpback Whales Set Record for Longest Journey Between Breeding Locations, Swimming Over 9,000 Miles

Researchers say of the thousands of whales photographed for the study, only two humpbacks made the record-breaking trip ...
New Scientist

Humpback whale songs have patterns that resemble human language

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...