Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Despite their name, killer whales (orcas) are actually dolphins.

Some toothed whales use only their teeth to capture and grab prey and ... 77 species of toothed whale (including dolphins and porpoises), compared with only 15 baleen whale species.

The scene was gruesome — the tattered, unnervingly carved-up remains of a dolphin were found lying on a Jersey Shore beach last fall. Its beak, dorsal fin and tail in tact — the rest meticulously ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

First thing first - it is not a dolphin. Second thing second - there really IS A PORPOISE in an inlet near Boston's Tenean Beach in Dorchester, Massachusetts...so that is crazy news. I didn't even ...

Since 2015, biologist Lonneke IJsseldijk has been researching stranded porpoises on behalf of the ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Nature. Not only to better understand the animal ...

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