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Quick crossword #1

14 April 2016

Sound the crossword klaxon! It's the first 91av crossword puzzle, and we want to hear what you think of it

Sharks seen hunting and killing a whale for the first time

16 December 2015

They usually eat fish, but a group of dusky sharks have been seen ganging up on a baby humpback whale, suggesting attacks may be more common than we thought

To save animals, we must work with their culture

10 December 2014

For the first time, a global treaty has recognised non-human culture. Now we must rethink how we preserve key species, says biologist Philippa Brakes

Today on 91av

27 March 2014

All the latest on newscientist.com: metal-eating plants, Facebook and Oculus, face-shifting empathetic robot, stem cell "unethical" culture and more

Ancient 'shrimp' was the blue whale of the Cambrian

26 March 2014

A 70-centimetre-long creature resembling a shrimp was the first animal to swim around filtering food from the water, just like modern baleen whales

Whale graveyard reveals most ancient mass strandings

26 February 2014

The oldest and greatest graveyard of extinct marine mammals now sits under a highway in South America – but researchers got access first

Big blue

2 October 2013

Antarctic freeze paved the way for baleen whales

18 April 2013

When Antarctica froze over it transformed the ecosystems in the surrounding oceans, and may even have driven the evolution of baleen whales

Zoologger: World's biggest mouth has an erectile secret

8 March 2013

There is a surprise lurking on the roof of the cavernous mouth of the bowhead whale

Vital giants: Why living seas need whales

6 July 2011

Large animals like whales are big eaters – but all marine life goes hungry without them. Let them live and the oceans will thrive again