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"An Acoustic Arms Race" False killer whales are one of several toothed whales that have an oil-filled structure in its forehead called a melon. The melon acts as an acoustic lens, and false killer whales can alter the focus of its echolocation signals by adjusting the shape of its melon and associated structures. Read more: www.americanscien... May & June 2013, Photograph by Doug Perrine/SeaPics.com. Illustration by Tom Dunne. Killer Whales, Nature, Marine Biology, False Killer Whale, Ocean Mammals, Shin Godzilla, Arms Race, Killer Whale, Wow Art

"An Acoustic Arms Race" False killer whales are one of several toothed whales that have an oil-filled structure in its forehead called a melon. The melon acts as an acoustic lens, and false killer whales can alter the focus of its echolocation signals by adjusting the shape of its melon and associated structures. Read more: www.americanscien... May & June 2013, Photograph by Doug Perrine/SeaPics.com. Illustration by Tom Dunne.

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The new rule, responding to legal action by the Natural Resources Defense Council, designates critical habitat from a depth of 45 meters to the 3,200-meter depth contour around the main Hawaiian Islands. Studies show that endangered species with critical habitat protections are twice as likely to be recovering than those lacking such habitat...

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