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For nearly forty years, a strange signal has been drifting through the North Pacific, making scientists scratch their heads.

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For years, scientists studying bowhead whales have relied on a simple idea: if a whale makes a long, square or U-shaped dive, ...

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North Atlantic right whales were once so thoroughly hunted they nearly went extinct. In fact, they were called right whales ...

On a sunny Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay, the spout of a gray whale emerged from the depths and sent a heart-shaped cloud ...