Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very remote locations, whales are more often heard than seen. Consequently, ...

Our closest living ancestors descended from primates, but does this mean we don’t share any commonalities with other, non-primate species? A recent discovery is challenging the extent to which we are ...

We round up five destinations where sightings of cetacean life are almost guaranteed in the spring and summer months, from hotspots off the Azores coast to the skerries between Scottish islands.

The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near ...