Nov 6, 2025 · Marine mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that bear live young and nourish them with milk as land mammals do, but that spend most or all of their lives in the ocean.

Aug 5, 2009 · Manatees, aquatic mammals inhabiting Florida’s rivers and coastal waters, swim close to the surface and are frequently killed in collisions with boats. To address the problem, …

Apr 3, 2013 · Some thirty million years ago, Ganges river dolphins diverged from other toothed whales, making them one of the oldest species of aquatic mammals that use echolocation, or …

Aug 21, 2008 · An unprecedented survey of seabirds, marine mammals, and sharks on the U.S. East Coast has revealed that marine wildlife contains a wide variety of disease-causing …

Apr 25, 2018 · Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals can get the bends - the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who …

Mar 20, 2024 · When other animals—marine mammals, seabirds, or people—consume contaminated fish and shellfish, they can ingest high enough concentrations of toxins to cause …

Jun 13, 2024 · Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate families—phocidae, otaridae, and odobenidae—that are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land.

5 days ago · Every drop of ocean water holds living things. Across Earth's history, the ocean has nurtured nearly every form of life that has ever existed. Immerse yourself in the diverse …

Oct 15, 2004 · Light in the ocean is like light in no other place on Earth. It is a world that is visibly different from our familiar terrestrial world, and one that marine animals, plants, and microbes …

Marine mammal's "ears" are thus very different from ours. Because the ocean environment (and the tissue from which sounds are emitted) change the vocalizations, the sounds that marine …