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‘Horrific and beautiful’ whale rescue image wins photography prize
See some of the winning entries for this year's Oceania Photo Contest, including Miesa Grobbelaar's shot of a whale, which took the top prize
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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends the 55-year-old Songs of the Humpback Whale
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Orcas scrub each other clean with bits of kelp
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Brainwave experiment shows minke whales have ultrasonic hearing
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Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade
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‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench
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If we could talk to whales, what might they say?
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Sperm whale clicks could be the closest thing to a human language yet
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Humpback whales have a specialised larynx for underwater singing
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An ancient whale claimed the title of heaviest animal ever in 2023
Perucetus colossus lived 39 million years ago and weighed in at between 85 and 340 tonnes, meaning it was probably larger than even blue whales. The discovery has inspired both fan art and music
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Surge of Russian tankers in the Arctic is raising risk of oil spills
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Cuvier’s beaked whale seen grieving dead calf for first time
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World’s smallest baleen whale stays home instead of migrating to feed
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Ancient whale might have been the heaviest animal that ever lived
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