But one group of mammals can swim through the heavy darkness: beaked whales. Despite the extreme conditions, these whales manage to hunt two kilometres deep, surviving on a single breath for near to ...

A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the southern California coast. The deepest recorded dive was 2,992 metres, breaking the record for diving mammals ...

A tragic incident has unfolded in Hartenbos in Mossel Bay, where two beaked whales were found stranded on the shore.

The creatures deep-dive for food and likely surface so rarely ... same species – and that it was one distinct from other beaked whales. Researchers studying the mammal could not confirm if ...

As deep divers of the ocean, beaked whales and other marine mammals ... What would make a diving whale suddenly acquire decompression sickness, something it has evolved to avoid?