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 ...

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 ...

Right whales are the rarest of all large whales. There are several species, but all are identified by enormous heads, which can measure up to one-third of their total body length. These whales ...

as there has been much interbreeding between rorqual species. But we now know that rorquals took a different ecological and ...

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 ...

which spans the range of 'clicks' that different species of deep-diving whales employ. For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) squid and pieces of squid beak that had been recovered from the ...

Whale songs mean different things to different groups of whales. Depending on the species and specific group, songs can be signifiers of a range of relationships including eligible mates, familial ...

A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.