Listen to a humpback whale pod communicate via underwater “songs”

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The big-bang theory proposes that the universe expanded from a highly compressed state.

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After surveying only a tiny fraction of a deep-sea trench at the bottom of the Diamantina Fracture Zone, a Chinese-led team of researchers counted the remains of 476 individual whales spanning a variety of species.

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John Dalton and the development of the atomic theory.

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Learn why whales—such as pilot whales at Fairwell Spit, New Zealand—sometimes get stranded or beached onshore.

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Female belugas returning to Canada's Hudson Bay to give birth and raise their young.

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An overview of beaked whales, particularly True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus).

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Marine biologists studying the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the waters off Moorea, French Polynesia.