While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

Whale Evolution: Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales.

Whale study findings explore the evolution of menopause across species Menopause is a rare occurrence found in just 6 out of over 6,000 mammal species inhabiting the Earth. Reuters.

The long periods of time that whales must hold their breath to dive and hunt also seem to have spurred genetic changes. Diving deep, as scuba divers know, means little bubbles of nitrogen can form ...

New research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales.

Whale evolution isn’t completely understood — but genes reveal part of the story. The genomes of cetaceans help tell the story of mammals who returned to the life aquatic.

The answer may lie in whales. Ellis and his team at the University of Exeter recently published a study in the journal Nature that studies the evolution of menopause in the undersea animals most ...

Having looked into the toothed whales, the researchers now hope to investigate the baleen whales to see how the rest of the cetacean family have adapted for dining at depth. ‘Baleen is such an ...

Rutgers University scientists are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in a new way, one they hope can help protect one of the world's most endangered whale species, the North American ...

The whale ‘dark ages’ Baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. Using plates made out of keratin to filter fish and invertebrates out of the water, the marine mammals have been able to ...

Fossil whale finds in the South, like the Murray River whale, are shaking up the evolution of whales into a more accurate, truly global picture of what was going on in the oceans long ago. “This ...