You searched for marine mammal | Page 13 of 15 | Popular Science

283 Results From "marine mammal "

25 Reasons To Love Drones

By Popular Science Team

A blindfolded sea otter named Selka shows how the critters find food in murky water

Endangered Species

Local knowledge can save endangered animals

By Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, Benjamin L. Jones, and Richard K.F. Unsworth/The Conversation

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

This human-sized penguin isn’t even the largest ancient penguin we know about

By Rachel Feltman

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme

By Marlene Cimons

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time

How polar animals cope with frigid darkness for months at a time

By Kate Baggaley

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

Human spit is actually a great cleaning solution (and other award-winning scientific finds)

By Sara Chodosh

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time

These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time

Ranking the Types of Bear Species

By Dan Nosowitz

The deadliest animals in America, ranked

The deadliest animals in America, ranked

By Erin Blakemore

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard

Rising temperatures are opening new territories for venomous creatures—including your backyard

By Kate Baggaley

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about

A third of marine megafauna died in a mass extinction that we didn’t even know about

By Sara Chodosh

Gray seals are making a huge comeback

Gray seals are making a huge comeback

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.

Whales today are bigger than ever before. Now, we know why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Bottlenose dolphin

Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of horrifying

By Sara Chodosh

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

Endangered Species

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

By Kate Baggaley

underwater image of true's beaked whale

Here’s the first video of one of the planet’s most elusive beaked whales

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Reconstruction of the amphibious bird-like dinosaur Halszkaraptor

This new, duck-like dinosaur is so wacky scientists thought it was fake

By Rachel Feltman

A mysterious stranding left nearly 100 dead dolphins off the coast of Florida

A mysterious stranding left nearly 100 dead dolphins off the coast of Florida

By Eleanor Cummins

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Latest

a bald eagle on a nest

Jackie the bald eagle’s blood values drop again, still in critical condition

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s concept, has enough power to continue operating three science instruments in interstellar space longer than anticipated thanks to some clever engineering by the mission team.

NASA successfully gives Voyager 2 another year of life

a baby sea turtle in the sand

What to do if you find a baby turtle

By Margherita Bassi

Close up of ancient Roman stone tablet inscribed with tax corruption decree

In ancient Rome, tax fraud was punishable by death