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A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico

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A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico

Baleen whales include the largest animals ever to exist, but despite their size, they remain mysterious – and a new species has just been found near the US south coast

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An Orca or Killer Whale (orcinus orca)

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Orcas (Orcinus orca)

Orcas swimming in New Zealand

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Orca deaths found to be a result of human activity

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Bottlenose dolphins may control their heart rates to avoid the bends

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Bottlenose dolphins may control their heart rates to avoid the bends

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Common dolphins may finally be returning to the Adriatic sea

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whale skeleton

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Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time

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Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones

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Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones

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fin whale

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An injured fin whale with no tail has been found in the Mediterranean

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Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females

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Male bottlenose dolphins synchronise their calls to attract females

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Chris Budd

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Sea sums: How we're keeping whales safe using maths

History, cake and an outrageous use of Pythagoras’s theorem feature in mathematician Chris Budd’s explanation of one serious way we are keeping whales safe

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A blue whale's heart beats just twice a minute when it dives for food

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Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage

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Humpback whales use their flippers to swat salmon into their mouths

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Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did

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