Their findings were published in the journal Gene. The evolution of acoustic fat bodies in the head—the melon in the whale forehead, extramandibular fat bodies (EMFB) alongside the jawbone ...

At the front of the head are the spermaceti organ, a cavity that contains the bulk of the whale’s spermaceti, and a mass of oil-saturated fatty tissue called the junk. Two long nasal passages ...

Although efforts are often made to save them, without water to maintain their buoyancy, the weight of the whale's own body soon begins to crush the internal organs. As smelly as 100 tonnes of ...

They host the brain, the sensory organs, and the teeth, all of which can tell researchers about the animals’ behavior and diet. For several years now, Coombs has been studying whale skull ...

A pod of orcas off the coast of Mexico appears to have learned new skills that help them hunt whale sharks — the world’s ...