Blue whale articles
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Listening to giants: The search for the elusive Antarctic blue whale
Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, measuring up to 30 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—as much as a Boeing 787. Yet it's the sound they make, not their size, which gives their location away.
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
Audio collected with underwater microphones suggests numbers at least stable after centuries of industrial whaling left only a few hundred aliveFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCenturies of industrial whaling left only a few hundred Antarctic blue whales alive, making it almost impossible to find them in the wild.New research suggests the population may be recovering. Australian scientists and...
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Blue State Blues: Democrats Should Skip Chicago, Hold Zoom Convention Again
The Democratic Party should cancel its national convention in Chicago in August and hold its meeting via Zoom, as it did during the 2020 campaign and the coronavirus pandemic -- for the sake of the city, and for the country as well.