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Oct. 26, 2023 Endangered whales and dolphins live year-round in an area of the Mediterranean earmarked for oil and gas exploration, new research ...
Apr. 1, 2021 A new study shows that the similarly smooth, nearly hairless skin of whales and hippopotamuses evolved independently. The work suggests that their last common ancestor was likely a land-dwelling ...
Sep. 23, 2022 Special blood vessels in whale brains may protect them from pulses, caused by swimming, in their blood that would damage the brain, new research has ...
Aug. 16, 2021 New research is shedding light on how the nasal passage of dolphins and whales shifts during embryonic development from emerging at the tip of the snout to emerging at the top of the head as a ...
Feb. 14, 2023 Seabed mining could soon begin in the deep ocean -- but the potential impact on animals including whales is unknown, researchers have ...
July 27, 2021 A research team has directly reprogrammed whale somatic cells to neuronal cells, and conducted a neurotoxicity test using these cells. Exposure to a metabolite of polychlorinated biphenyls, ...
Mar. 4, 2024 When certain species of wild birds and primates discover new ways of finding food in the wild, it can serve to measure their flexibility and intelligence. In the largest experimental study ever ...
Apr. 29, 2021 A large study reveals the way relative brain size of mammals changed over the last 150 million ...
Aug. 2, 2022 If you've ever seen a grackle steal your dog pellets or a starling peck open a garbage bag, you get a sense of that some birds have learned to take advantage of new feeding opportunities -- a ...
Aug. 19, 2022 New research sheds light on how climate change will impact the distribution of great whales in New Zealand waters. Researchers used a complex modelling approach to project the regional range shift of ...