Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these whales ...

The study was led by Professor Coen Elemans, voice scientist at the Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark and Professor Peter Madsen, whale biologist at the Department of Biology ...

Toothed whales such as orcas and dolphins use air-powered nose blasts to help them hunt prey hundreds of metres deep. The nasal-powered echolocation system works under extreme water pressure and ...

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to new research. The marine animals, a type of baleen whale found in the ...

Each year New Zealand experiences mass strandings of long-finned pilot whales along its shoreline ... differences in morphology (branch of biology that deals with form and structure of animals ...

Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access – w00t!) paper in Endangered Species Research. In it, ...

Scientists know of three distinct ecotypes of killer whales—offshore, transients, and residents—that make up the orca population along the California and Oregon coast. But a new study suggests ...