Only male whales sing as part of an elaborate courtship display to prove their worth to potential mates. Other ways to woo a whale can include physical competition, where males charge at speed all in ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

A partially fossilized jaw and teeth, believed to belong to a whale ancestor from 35–40 million years ago, were reported missing by locals in Tolegre village, South Garo Hills district ...

Sangma and Salban M. Sangma. Their findings suggested that the fossils were from prehistoric whale ancestors dating back to the Middle Eocene epoch (39-47 million years ago). The CGE team alerted ...

However, the list below discusses each of the largest animals in the world by type. The biggest animal in the world is the adult blue whale. They’re also the largest mammal in the world. Blue whales ...

Though sperm whales have survived the enormous pressures of the darkest depths for millions of years, today there’s one thing they cannot survive: the human activity that has been affecting their ...

A sperm whale washed ashore on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod Sunday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement. The most recent whale discovery is part of a series of whale ...

“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor, an enslaved man known by his descendants as Papa Rent ...

A humpback whale has got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope at a fish farm off Skye. Organic Sea Harvest said it had suspended normal operations at its Invertote site in the north of ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat: Fish, seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas ...

Pioneering genetics research by Dr Hans Eiberg and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen has traced blue-eyed individuals to one ancestor about 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea ...