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New wearable sensors for dolphins could reveal the cost of human disturbances in marine habitats, say researchers.

An image of the lagoon at Dolphin Quest Oahu where the animals swam with the biologging tags. Image credit: Alex Shorter, University of Michigan Study: Tag-based estimates of bottlenose dolphin swimming behavior and energetics. (DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244599) Just like a smartwatch can tell its w

When scientists tracked great white sharks to a mysterious mid-Pacific hangout, they nicknamed it the White Shark Café — are they eating, or meeting?

When scientists tracked great white sharks to a mysterious mid-Pacific hangout, they nicknamed it the White Shark Café — are they eating, or meeting?

The Haikubox gives people a tool to identify a bird in their backyard by its song and scientists a way to track bird migration as the climate changes.

Models suggest the arrangement of American shad in a shoal amplifies the ultrasonic clicks that dolphins use to hunt, helping the fish detect and evade these predators

 E-Mail DURHAM, N.H.-- An international development team, led by researchers at the University of New Hampshire, has released a user-friendly software program they created that can process sound data collected from the worlds oceans in a more standardized format that will enhance research and collaboration and help understand the global sea soundscape dynamics, including the impact of COVID-19 when travel and economic slowdowns put a halt to human activities in the ocean. "Soundscape analysis...

DEEPLY INTERESTING FINDINGS FROM BLUE HOLES This year, Mote scientists undertook some of their deepest and most challenging missions yet into the Gulf of Mexico’s blue holes—underwater caves, springs and sinkholes being explored for their unique biology, chemistry and structure. The world took notice of these pioneering efforts during July and August 2020, when  Mote’s blue hole research appeared in 242 news stories estimated to reach more than 850 million viewers or readers. Notably, on...

Loading video... VIDEO: Turn up the sound! Using the whitespotted eagle ray and underwater acoustic recorders, a study is the first to characterize how they consume hard-shelled mollusk prey like clams in a... view more  Credit: Florida Atlantic Universitys Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute "Shell-crushing" - exactly what it sounds like - is a predatory mode used by numerous marine life from crabs to octopuses to large fishes and mammals when they eat hard-shelled mollusks like clams...