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20 Aug 2026

Warming waters draw summer ‘feeding frenzies’ by whales off Greenland

Schools of baleen whales now feast regularly on capelin in rapidly warming Greenland Sea

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30 Jul 2026

Chicken kidney sponge could be ‘outstanding’ at cleaning up polluted ports

Hardy sea sponge shows great promise as an ecosystem engineer to clean up and rewild degraded harbors

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21 Jul 2026

Walking sharks and displaced lions: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month

At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to see all that research in the same way scientists do. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.

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20 Jul 2026

Underwater drones discover coral reefs off Benin, long presumed dead, teeming with life

Researchers used sonar and underwater imaging systems to find mesophotic coral garden 1960s scientists assumed must be dead

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22 Jun 2026

How dugongs dive and which wolves defend territories: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month

At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to see all that research in the same way scientists do. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.

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19 Jun 2026

Arabian Sea humpback whale’s long-distance trip further highlights species’ unique ecology

Study documents first direct evidence of an Arabian Sea humpback whale crossing the Arabian Sea, an unusual journey for a species so uniquely adapted to their habitat they represent a behavioral anomaly

Life sciences

19 May 2026

DNA floating in seawater is now enough to let scientists monitor the health of America’s dolphin populations

Scientists shows that simply sampling seawater can reveal health of dolphin populations, in a first for conservation

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18 May 2026

Balding seals and invasive crocs: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month

At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to see all that research in the same way scientists do. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.

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11 May 2026

How jellyfish bycatch could be valuable collagen source for cosmetics and biotech

Q&A with Dr Ainara Ballesteros and Raquel Torres, authors of a new Frontiers in Marine Science article on the use of jellyfish bycatch as a sustainable collagen source

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13 Apr 2026

18% of gray whales that enter San Francisco Bay die there, scientists find

The climate crisis is driving starving gray whales into busy San Francisco Bay, where they are hit and killed by vessels

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19 Mar 2026

Overheating lizards and vulnerable sharks: Here are Frontiers’ photo highlights of the month

At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. Here are some images that showcase some of the newest findings published in the last month.

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23 Jan 2026

Whales may divide resources to co-exist under pressures from climate change

28 years of data show that three whale species in the Gulf of St Lawrence may be dividing resources to survive in an ecosystem that’s changing under a warming climate and increased human encroachment