HollyAdmiral, there be whales here
Glyn MoodyAntarctic #whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by #krill fishing - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/26/antarctic-whales-comeback-threatened-industrial-krill-fishing-southern-ocean come on, let's not screw this up again...
TheBadPlaceThe New Republic | Trump’s “God Squad” Might Vote for a Whale’s Extinction This Week by Jonathan Rosenbloom
On Tuesday morning, a group of federal officials will gather at 18th and C Streets in Washington, D.C., to perform a task usually reserved for the divine. They will sit in a conference room and decide which species are permitted to continue existing on Earth, and which have become too great an inconvenience to the extraction of oil and gas.
Inside the Beltway, they call this group the “God Squad”—and for good reason. Officially known as the Endangered Species Committee, it holds the rare, federally sanctioned power to exempt projects from the requirements of the Endangered Species Act. By order of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the committee is meeting for the first time in more than 30 years to consider an exemption for “oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities” in the Gulf of Mexico. (Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly insisted Burgum that call the meeting, on national security grounds.)
We have been trained to view these meetings as dry regulatory disputes over administrative law or the “rational” weighing of economic interests. But what happens on Tuesday is a matter of life and death. The committee—composed of the heads of the Interior, Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army, and the Council of Economic Advisors—can decide that the very presence of an endangered species is an unacceptable obstacle to the oil and gas industry’s balance sheet. When the God Squad grants an exemption, the species in question is put at risk of extinction.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208313/trump-god-squad-endangered-rices-whale-extinction-gulf-mexico
#donaldtrump #endangeredspeciesact #fossilfuels #gulfofmexico #whales
News BeepHumpback whale captivating Germany has stranded again off Baltic Sea coast
BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale that was freed after becoming stuck for several days in shallow water…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Animals #BalticSea #Generalnews #Germany #Greenpeace #NorthSea #Oceans #TrendingNews #Whales #World #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/457640/
Kate 
Humpback whale stranded again off German coast - just days after rescue https://news.sky.com/story/humpback-whale-stranded-again-off-german-coast-just-days-after-rescue-13525500 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032026/trump-god-squad-gulf-oil-drilling-endangered-species/ 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #FossilFuels #FuckTrump
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles - Inside Climate News
Citing national security, the Trump administration wants to exempt all federally regulated offshore oil from protections for endangered animals—even if it could cause their extinction.
Edwin G. 
The birth of a sperm whale 🐳 has been captured on video in 2023.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sperm-whale-birth-video-9.7144808
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La naissance d’un cachalot 🐳 a été capté sur vidéo en 2023
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El Nacho 💙🇺🇦☠️🦇👻🚀👽
D C Fitzgeraldhttps://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/hin-sam-wan-thailand From above, the rock's resemble a family of whales (mother, father and calf) swimming in the jungle. #science #geology #geography #nature #whales #animals
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦And a second paper
Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events
#Science #Whales #Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-27438-3?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_PCOM_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO
Description of a collaborative sperm whale birth and shifts in coda vocal styles during key events - Scientific Reports
Wild cetacean birth observations are extremely rare, with observations having been recorded in less than 10% of cetacean species. Here, we describe a detailed accounting of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) birth off the coast of Dominica within a well-documented social unit and consisted of sperm whales collaboratively lifting the newborn out of the water. We recorded data via multiple concurrent methods: underwater audio, aerial drone video, shipboard photography in addition to behavioral observations spanning before, during and after the whale birth. All 11 members from sperm whale “Unit A” were present and participated in the birth, which lasted 34 min from the time the flukes emerged until the completion of delivery. The sperm whale unit made extensive vocalizations, with statistically significant shifts in coda vocal style corresponding to key events, such as the beginning of the birth and interactions with short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) shortly after the birth event. An evolutionary analysis of wild cetacean births suggests that newborns being lifted out of the water dates to before the most recent common ancestor of toothed and baleen whales, > 36 million years ago, and that cooperative lifting of the newborn is noted, thus far, only in members of Odontoceti (toothed whales). This study provides the most in-depth observations of a wild cetacean birth.