Such threats include bycatch (accidental capture in fishing gear), chemical and noise pollution, ship strikes, habitat destruction, over-fishing of prey species, and climate change—which can impact ...

Orcas are too wide-ranging, too socially complex, and simply too large to cope with captivity in concrete tanks that are a tiny fraction the size of their natural home ranges. The compromised welfare ...

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

Prior to the current research, the most recent cetacean survey—conducted in Kaimana in 2015—had recorded 64 pods of Australian humpback dolphins and 40 pods of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp ...

We are using the cetacean collections to investigate the ecology and evolution of the largest animals on Earth. We are taking 3D scans of the Museum's blue whale skeleton, and other cetaceans from our ...