WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore recently traveled to New Zealand to study the sperm whales off the coast of the Kaikoura Peninsula. Team members of the team deployed in small boats from the research vessel Alucia and used a long carbon fiber pole to place non-invasive digital tags (Dtags) that record the movements and sounds of individual whales. (Photo by Luis Lamar, Advanced Imaging & Visualization Lab, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under New Zealand Department of Conservation Permit 35604-MAR)
Four WHOI researchers participate in a landmark genetic study on the coelacanth, a primitive lobe finned fish that existed for more than 400 million years.
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