The discovery — published June 23 in Current Biology — constitutes the “first evidence” recorded of tool-making by marine mammals. “ We were amazed when we first noticed this,” Michael Weiss, the ...

Killer whales have been seen detaching lengths of seaweed and using them to massage each other—the first evidence of ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

Trending News: Bowhead whales, denizens of the Arctic Ocean, are revealed as exceptionally long-lived mammals, potentially reaching ages exceeding 200 years. Genetic ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

A 15,000 year old piece of a whale vertebra from the ... sperm whales, right whales or bowhead whales, as well as gray whales. While today gray whales mostly exist in the North Pacific Ocean ...

When such an enormous animal comes alongside the boat and greets you like an old friend ... includes the chance to encounter blue whales, bowhead whales, humpback whales, orcas, belugas, white ...

“The story for a long time was that bowhead whales were special, they were extraordinary,” Breed said. But “it may be that all whales can live to be extremely old,” he added. In the case ...

Like bowhead and right whales ... Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations. Though many whale populations are recovering in ...

Like bowhead and right whales ... Industrial whaling, which ended only in the 1960s, removed old whales from the world’s whale populations. Though many whale populations are recovering in ...