Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

Decompression sickness can occur when a mammal ... a whale's hearing can be equivalent to that of a jet engine at takeoff on the ears of a human located only three feet away. Many marine ...

dolphins and other sea mammals to auditory danger. Peter Madsen, a professor of marine biology at Aarhus University in Denmark, said he applauded the Hawaiian team for its “elegant study” and ...

Underwater noise pollution can also cause hearing loss in marine mammals and/or alter their acoustic behaviour, but is currently not legally recognised as an official threat to marine life in ...