possibly several species. Ten different “ecotypes” of killer whales have now been proposed: populations that look different, have different prey preferences, feeding habits and acoustic ...

Many different species of whales are facing extinction. In particular, the number of blue and hump-backed whales is falling sharply. That's why the International Whaling Commission announced a ban ...

People who sound like you tend to make you feel at home,' says Luke. Whale songs mean different things to different groups of whales. Depending on the species and specific group, songs can be ...

How long can these other whale species live? Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations. Though many whale populations are ...

Even when taken from 620km up, this imagery is sharp enough to capture the distinctive shapes of different species. The team will soon conduct an audit of fin whales in the Mediterranean.

“Using genetic samples, collected from free-swimming whales with a small biopsy dart, we’ve been able to look at two types of humpback DNA; the ‘mitochondrial’ DNA which is inherited from ...