Survival of the smallest? Bigger sea species more threatened
9/15/2016
In this Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, a 70-foot female blue whale, that officials believe was struck by a ship, is seen washed ashore on the Northern ...
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The fluke of a sperm whale sticks out of the sea as it dives among other resting whales off the coast of Mirissa, in southern Sri Lanka, March 29, 2013.
FILE - A blue whale is shown near a cargo ship in the Santa Barbara Channel off the California coast, Aug. 14, 2008. The oceans are turning into a ...
FILE In this Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, a 70-foot female blue whale, that officials believe was struck by a ship, is seen washed ashore on the Northern ...
FILE In this Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, a 70-foot female blue whale, that ... Take the blue whale , not only the largest living animal, stretching close to 100 ...
Paleobiologist Jonathan Payne holds a whale vertebra. His research group recently found that large body size is strongly associated with higher ...
“A blue whale diving down to feed might mix a whole lot of ocean water. A larger clam will mix more sediments than a smaller one.” Stuart Pimm, a ...