Scientists captured more than 2,000 marine animals from 15 species feeding together at a protected monument off Massachusetts, raising fresh questions about a federal rollback of fishing restrictions just months earlier. A New England Aquarium survey plane flew over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on August 16 and documented a scene researchers […] The post More than 2,000 ocean predators spotted off Cape Cod — weeks after feds reopened the waters to commercial fishing appeared first on American Almanac .
Scientists captured more than 2,000 marine animals from 15 species feeding together at a protected monument off Massachusetts, raising fresh questions about a federal rollback of fishing restrictions just months earlier. A New England Aquarium survey plane flew over the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on August 16 and documented a scene researchers called extraordinary: dolphins, whales, whale sharks, and manta rays all congregating near the surface of a nearly 5,000-square-mile ocean preserve roughly 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod. The sheer number of animals, and the presence of several species classified as endangered, landed the survey squarely in the middle of a policy fight that has bounced between…Open
Ross Coulthart shares an experience with dolphins during the Iraq War. Watch this full episode of "Unreported": https://youtu.be/Qaim3Icj1C0 #RossCoulthart #IraqWar #dolphins
How the government gave drugs to dolphins as part of a program to teach them English. Watch this full episode of "Unreported": https://youtu.be/Qaim3Icj1C0 #USgovernment #military #dolphins
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In the 1960s, NASA ran programs in hopes of teaching dolphins English. Watch this full episode of "Unreported": https://youtu.be/Qaim3Icj1C0 #NASA #dolphins #science
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Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery, we investigate. In this episode, Meagan sits down with Mamadou, host of "Casual Geographic," to unpack what's really behind Pete Hegseth's jaw-dropping press conference admission: that he can't confirm or deny whether the U.S. military has kamikaze dolphins. The story goes much deeper than the headline. From the U.S. Navy's active Marine Mammal Program to a Cold War-era government-funded experiment that tried to teach dolphins to speak English, Meagan and Mamadou trace how dolphins went from cute and cuddly to full-blown military assets. They also…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied Tuesday that Iran has “kamikaze dolphins.” But Hegseth did not rule out that the U.S. military has them. The U.S. Navy, in fact, does have a Marine Mammal Program that trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to “detect, locate, mark and recover objects” in harbors, coastal areas and at depth in the open sea. The Navy has trained dolphins and sea lions since 1959, with the Marine Mammal Program homeported at Naval Base Point Loma since the 1960s. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Reconnaissance and Interdiction Division manages the program. #straitofhormuz #hegseth #iran
