Feedback is delighted to hear from a reader who proposes an ingenious new unit of data – but we have some quibbles with the ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

Bowhead whale: Bowhead whales may have multiple mechanisms of cancer resistance. In preprints that analyzed the genome and the cells of bowhead whales, researchers identified a retroduplication of the ...

Other than songbirds, only a few animals, such as whales and humans, can learn vocalizations. Researchers can now study this songbird's genome to better understand the development of learned ...