Tiny, toothed mammalodontids were among the strangest of all whales. If alive today, they would be as iconically Australian as kangaroos. In a new paper...
In a paper published online in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, marine biologists report on 34 interactions spanning two decades in which killer...
Archaeologists have examined a large sample of worked bone objects from 26 Paleolithic cave and rockshelter sites in the Cantabrian region of Spain and...
Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th...
An international team of researchers has analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over...
Play is a widespread behavior present in distant species that, in its social form, relies on complex communication. Playful communication has been largely...
Parapontoporia, an extinct genus of long-snouted dolphins that lived off the Pacific coast of North America from the Late Miocene epoch until the Pliocene,...
To gather information on the animals’ habits, University of British Columbia’s Professor Andrew Trites and his colleagues used drone footage and biological...
Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) are highly social mammals that communicate using clicks. According to new research, they can combine and modulate...
Aureia rerehua had unique teeth which might have formed a cage around small fish; these teeth, along with a weak vertex, flexible neck, and the smallest...
An international team of scientists has produced a reference-quality, long-read-based genome assembly for the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus).
The blue...
Paleontologists from the University of California, Davis, and Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History estimate that Perucetus colossus,...
In a new paper published this month in the journal Diversity, paleontologists described the fossilized skeletons of the dolphin genus Xenorophus from the...
The newly-identified species of basilosaurid whale has been named Tutcetus rayanensis after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. This new species...
Olympicetus thalassodon is one of several that are helping us understand the early history and diversification of modern dolphins, porpoises and other...
Trap feeding and tread-water feeding are whale hunting strategies first recorded in the 2000s in two whale species at opposite sides of the globe. In both...
The team’s goal was to assemble a gapless genome for the East Asian finless porpoise (Neophocaena sunameri) to aid in the conservation of this endangered...
In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers described the signature whistles produced by six distinct geographical units of the...
Two new species of ancient cetaceans related to modern dolphins and sperm whales have been identified from the 20-million-year-old fossilized ear bones...
