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Photo title: Humpback whale breaching
Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries
Photo title: Endangered Hector's Dolphin, New Zealand
Photo credit: Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society www.forestandbird.org.nz
Link Between Marine Algae and Whale Diversity Over Last 30 Million Years, Study Finds
by George Mason University, ScienceDaily
22 February 2010
A new paper by researchers shows a strong link between the diversity of organisms at the bottom of the food chain and the diversity of mammals at the top.