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Oceanus Magazine

Ostrander

Fires, floods, and forgotten places

August 28, 2025

Finding home with author Madeline Ostrander

shells

Ancient seas, future insights

July 10, 2025

WHOI scientists study the paleo record to understand how the ocean will look in a warmer climate

WHOI biologist Laela Sayigh attaches a suction-cup hydrophone to a dolphin in Sarasota Bay

Whistle! Chirp! Squeak! What does it mean?

July 1, 2025

Avatar Alliance Foundation donation helps WHOI researcher decode dolphin communication

Sonic Sharks

April 23, 2025

The predators may not be a silent as once thought

angler fish

A rare black seadevil anglerfish sees the light

March 20, 2025

A viral video shows a denizen of the ocean’s twilight zone making an unusual trip to the surface

News Releases

New report highlights plastic pollution as a grave and growing danger to health and announces an independent, health-focused global monitoring system

August 4, 2025

While the impacts of plastic pollution on human health and the environment are growing, the report finds, increasing harm due to plastics is not inevitable.

Fecal samples from bowhead whales link ocean warming to rising algal toxins in Arctic waters

July 9, 2025

Filter-feeding whales sample the Arctic food web, tracking decades of change

Groundbreaking research sheds light on how whales and dolphins use sound

June 9, 2025

Differences in brain structure between echolocating and non-echolocating marine mammals offers insight into auditory processing

UN-backed global research shows benefits of tracking ocean giants for marine conservation

June 5, 2025

WHOI researchers part of collaborative, international effort to increase Marine Protected Areas and other strategies

Researchers awarded for identifying first evidence of possible language-like communication in dolphins

May 16, 2025

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and partners take home prestigious award

News & Insights

A disentanglement team attempts to free a right whale from fishing gear. EcoHealth Alliance, NOAA Permit #932-1905.

Untangling Impacts on Right Whales

May 3, 2019

Whale scientists look for new ways to mitigate whale entanglements in fishing lines

Marine ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is exploring new, non-invasive approaches to measuring the body mass of gray seals. Photo by Michelle Shero

Seal Spy

May 1, 2019

Drones helps WHOI scientist measure the body mass of mother and pup seals during lactation

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