They gained fresh clues into how Otodus megalodon met its "vast" appetite through state-of-the-art analysis of zinc detected ...

Distinguishing closely related animal species can sometimes feel like an exercise in semantics. But there are real ...

Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #708 on Monday, May 19, ...

A video posted online of two orcas circling in an algae-infested pool in southern France has brought a fresh wave of ...

I know, it’s confusing. Whales and dolphins are not in the same family but they are both part of the same order of Cetacea. This includes all whales, dolphins and porpoises. Whales and dolphins belong ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science” is, in effect, two exhibitions. It runs at the MIT Museum through January. The subtitle gives a clue as to that two-ness.

Analyses of non-metric characters of the skull and cervical vertebrae were performed among samples of dolphins of the genus Sotalia from the north, northeast and south Brazilian coast (S. guianensis) ...

Elders and elected councillors also performed cultural work on March 5, observing a brushing ceremony just hours before specialists from Cetacea Contracting re-assembled the skeleton. Cetacea ...

CHICAGO — A new scientific study provides many new insights into the biology of the prehistoric gigantic shark, Megalodon or megatooth shark, which lived nearly worldwide 15-3.6 million years ...

A new mark-recapture abundance estimate and a photographic census were carried out to investigate the possible decline in the abundance of the bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), ...

An international team of researchers has analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over eight years in New Caledonia. “We found ...