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“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predatorsa killer whale breaches in a wave

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“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predatorsa killer whale breaches in a wave
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“Unprecedented” Long-Distance Swims Documented In Type D Killer Whales, One Of The World’s Most Mysterious Predators

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The Animal With The Biggest Mouth Has An Open Gob A Whopping 4 Meters HighA bowhead whale spyhops off the coast of western Sea of Okhotsk

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The Animal With The Biggest Mouth Has An Open Gob A Whopping 4 Meters HighA bowhead whale spyhops off the coast of western Sea of Okhotsk
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The Animal With The Biggest Mouth Has An Open Gob A Whopping 4 Meters High

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Watch This Wild Dolphin With The Zoomies Show Rare “Tail Walking” BehaviorNorthern right whale dolphin displaying "tail walking", in which its body is upright and out of the water

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Watch This Wild Dolphin With The Zoomies Show Rare “Tail Walking” BehaviorNorthern right whale dolphin displaying "tail walking", in which its body is upright and out of the water
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Watch This Wild Dolphin With The Zoomies Show Rare “Tail Walking” Behavior

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One Of The World’s Rarest, Smallest Dolphins May Have Just Been Spotted Off New Zealand’s CoastA Hector's dolphin with a portion of its upper body out of the water.

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One Of The World’s Rarest, Smallest Dolphins May Have Just Been Spotted Off New Zealand’s CoastA Hector's dolphin with a portion of its upper body out of the water.
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One Of The World’s Rarest, Smallest Dolphins May Have Just Been Spotted Off New Zealand’s Coast

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Elusive Gingko-Toothed Beaked Whale Seen Alive For First Time EverA young adult male ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (#2b, lower left) swims along with an adult male

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Elusive Gingko-Toothed Beaked Whale Seen Alive For First Time EverA young adult male ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (#2b, lower left) swims along with an adult male
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Elusive Gingko-Toothed Beaked Whale Seen Alive For First Time Ever

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Newly Spotted Vaquita Babies Offer Glimmer Of Hope For World's Rarest Marine MammalAerial view of an adult vaquita and calf.

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Newly Spotted Vaquita Babies Offer Glimmer Of Hope For World's Rarest Marine MammalAerial view of an adult vaquita and calf.
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Newly Spotted Vaquita Babies Offer Glimmer Of Hope For World's Rarest Marine Mammal

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Bowhead Whales Can Live For 200 Years – This May Explain Their Extraordinary LongevityBowhead whales in the ocean

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Bowhead Whales Can Live For 200 Years – This May Explain Their Extraordinary LongevityBowhead whales in the ocean
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Bowhead Whales Can Live For 200 Years – This May Explain Their Extraordinary Longevity

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Why You Should Really, Really Not Eat Dolphin Meatbottlenose dolphin sticking its head above the water

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Why You Should Really, Really Not Eat Dolphin Meatbottlenose dolphin sticking its head above the water
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Why You Should Really, Really Not Eat Dolphin Meat

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Stranded Dolphins’ Brains Show Signs Of Alzheimer’s-Like DiseaseCommon bottlenose dolphin leaping out of the water

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Stranded Dolphins’ Brains Show Signs Of Alzheimer’s-Like DiseaseCommon bottlenose dolphin leaping out of the water
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Stranded Dolphins’ Brains Show Signs Of Alzheimer’s-Like Disease

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In 1984, Scientists Noticed Strange “Voices” Coming From Their Cetacean Enclosurebeluga whale changed vocalizations to sound more human

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In 1984, Scientists Noticed Strange “Voices” Coming From Their Cetacean Enclosurebeluga whale changed vocalizations to sound more human
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In 1984, Scientists Noticed Strange “Voices” Coming From Their Cetacean Enclosure

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Beluga Whales Shake Their Blob-Like Melons To Say Hello And Even Woo A Mate, But How?beluga whales looking at a camera

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Beluga Whales Shake Their Blob-Like Melons To Say Hello And Even Woo A Mate, But How?beluga whales looking at a camera
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Beluga Whales Shake Their Blob-Like Melons To Say Hello And Even Woo A Mate, But How?

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Kimalu The Beluga Whale Undergoes Pioneering Surgery And Becomes First Beluga To Survive General AnestheticAn entire team of staff help assist a beluga whale onto a streacher before surgery. The whale is in a shallow water pool inside a medical building.

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Kimalu The Beluga Whale Undergoes Pioneering Surgery And Becomes First Beluga To Survive General AnestheticAn entire team of staff help assist a beluga whale onto a streacher before surgery. The whale is in a shallow water pool inside a medical building.
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Kimalu The Beluga Whale Undergoes Pioneering Surgery And Becomes First Beluga To Survive General Anesthetic

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What Is The Longest-Living Whale?Vintage style bowhead whale art illustration showing whalers attacking the whale on choppy seas.

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What Is The Longest-Living Whale?Vintage style bowhead whale art illustration showing whalers attacking the whale on choppy seas.
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The Longest-Living Whale Can Live For Over 200 Years

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Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Have Been Returned To The Wild For First Time In ChinaA smiley trio of Yangtze finless porpoise at the Chinese Institute of Hydrobiology, the research group behind this new project.

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Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Have Been Returned To The Wild For First Time In ChinaA smiley trio of Yangtze finless porpoise at the Chinese Institute of Hydrobiology, the research group behind this new project.
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Two Yangtze Finless Porpoises Have Been Returned To The Wild For First Time In China

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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy OceansHumpback whale swimming underwater

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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy OceansHumpback whale swimming underwater
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Why Whale Wee Is Crucial To Healthy Oceans

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