4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (640+ words) A federal appeals court has upheld a rule requiring turtle excluder devices on larger skimmer trawl shrimp boats, rejecting an industry challenge and preserving protections conservation groups say prevent thousands of sea turtle deaths. A federal appeals court has affirmed…...

6+ day, 10+ min ago   (780+ words) New heart-rate data from blue and humpback whales shows their hearts behave like sprinters' during feeding lunges - a discovery that reveals how whales got so big, and how vulnerable their energy budgets really are. A blue whale’s heart can beat…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (357+ words) Researchers say the image offers a rare glimpse into UK’s shifting ecosystems, as warmer waters bring octopus blooms, and new feeding activities. An image of an octopus appearing to grip the fin of a Risso’s dolphin in the UK’s southwest…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (417+ words) It’s thought to be the first recording to capture a by-catch event, informing future evidence-based bycatch solutions. The first in-detail recording of a bycatch event has been captured incidentally by researchers, whose monitoring system picked up communications between two porpoises…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (446+ words) An underwater robot secretly listened to dolphins off Florida's coast for two months, revealing they switch their sounds between socialising and hunting, and may be using their prey's own noise to track them down. Dolphins off Florida’s Atlantic coast appear…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (386+ words) Arctic Skuas, little terns and common terns were hit the hardest, while black-headed gulls and gannets had stronger-than-average years Scotland’s seabirds are in serious decline, with new government data showing numbers have fallen by roughly half over the past four…...