September 5, 2020 By Lynda V. Mapes The Seattle Times
Mother orca Tahlequah has had her baby. The endangered southern resident killer whale, J35, touched hearts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world in August 2018 when she lost a calf that lived only a half-hour. She carried the calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles, refusing to let the calf go.
September 4, 2020 By Steve Murray Hakai Magazine
A genetic discovery may help restore chinook salmon to reopening river habitats.
September 2, 2020 By Abigail Eisenstadt Smithsonian Magazine
Once in a while, scientists re-discover an unusual specimen hidden on the shelves of a museum collection. This time, they found a cast of a skull from a Southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina, which swam upriver to Indiana over 1000 years ago. The cast had been hidden in a drawer of the fossil marine mammals collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History since the 1970s.
September 2, 2020 By Michael Allen Hakai Magazine
A systematic review exposes the dangers of tiny plastics and the hidden bias at the heart of plastic research.
September 1, 2020 By Annie Roth The New York Times
The influx of whales to cleaner waters off New York City has meant that the number of them injured or killed there is on the rise.