An international team of marine biologists has found genetic evidence of a previously unknown species of beaked whale (Berardius sp.nov.) that ranges from...
A group of marine biologists from the University of British Columbia, Stanford University, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural...
In a new paper in the journal Biology Letters, scientists reported fossil traces of Osedax – a genus of bone-devouring worms that both eat and inhabit...
Uplift associated with the East Africa’s Great Rift Valley has puzzled scientists for many years because the timing and starting elevation have been...
Sci-News.com compiles an annual list of the top 20 new species of animals, plants and insects found in the past twelve months.
1. Araguaian boto (Inia...
A team of genetic researchers headed by Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes from the University of Liverpool, UK, has sequenced the genome of the mysterious bowhead...
A new species of diminutive baleen whale that lived between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago (Late Pliocene) has been described by U.S. paleontologists led...
Marine biologists have described a new species of beaked whale known only from seven specimens found stranded on tropical islands in the western and central...
Marine scientists from UK have successfully demonstrated a novel method of identifying and counting whales using very high resolution satellite imagery,...
Italian paleontologists have reported the discovery of enigmatic fossils in Pleistocene shallow-marine clay deposits in central Italy.
1.75-million-year-old...
A team of biologists has made the first complete description of the spade-toothed beaked whale, Mesoplodon traversii, a whale species previously known...
Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego have discovered that white whales can imitate the voices of humans.
The beluga or white...
According to a team of scientists from the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, large numbers of humpback whales are remaining in bays along the...
The Zooniverse team at Oxford University and Scientific American have launched the whale-song project, called Whale FM, to involve curious citizen scientists....
