By Spoorthy Raman The French government recently announced it has greenlit a plan to send its last captive cetaceans — two ...

Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction of all the large predatory marine reptiles? A study has looked into the possible ...

Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial quadrupeds to obligate swimmers, a change that is traditionally studied by functional analysis of the postcranial skeleton 1. Here we assess the evolution of ...

Cancer should be a near certainty for whales, the longest-living and largest mammals there are – but scientists are finding that cetaceans are excellent at protecting themselves against the deadly ...

It seems cetacean populations have declined significantly in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. This is probably because of three factors: a reduction of fish stocks due to commercial exploitation ...

Cetaceans in captivity experience significant physical and psychological harm, as confinement, performance training, and forced interactions strip them of natural behaviors and social structures.

Tens of millions of years ago, whales looked quite a bit different than they do today. Instead of gliding through the water, they had legs and hooves and walked on land — though some did take the ...

Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction of all the large predatory marine reptiles? A study conducted by Rebecca Bennion, a ...