Small vessels underestimated as strike risk to migrating whales
93% of recreational vessels in Moreton Bay overlooked in strike risk.
93% of recreational vessels in Moreton Bay overlooked in strike risk.
Study highlights species' "fission-fusion" social structure for diving, hunting and socialising.
Entanglements and ship strikes heavily impact critically endangered species' future.
Researchers say potential carbon capture by whales is too little to alter course of climate change.
Whales observed rolling in up to 49m water depth on the sea floor lined with fine sand or rubble.
A Griffith University-led study has provided the first evidence of mercury accumulation in humpback whales foraging in the Southern Ocean.
First deployment of cost-effective, non-invasive suction cup tag a success.
Humpback whales across the southern hemisphere are being used as indicators of environmental and climatic change in Antarctica through Griffith University led research.
One third of all humpback whales in the Gold Coast Bay are mother-calf pairs making the location almost as important as breeding grounds for whales with calves.
A world-first research project aims to understand how ocean changes influence the recovery of whale populations in the southern hemisphere.