Researchers reanalyzing 15-million-year-old fossils unearthed in California over a century ago have described a new sperm whale genus: Albicetus, after the toothy white leviathan of Herman ...

Of the many sperm whales (Physeteridae) that existed during the Miocene, today only three species remain: Physeter macrocephalus (Giant Sperm whale), Kogia sima (Dwarf sperm whale), and Kogia ...

Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.

The OBX Marine Mammal Stranding Network reports that a dead male dwarf sperm whale (kogia sima) washed up on the beach in Carova on January 24. The whale was elderly, was 243 centimeters in length ...

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Heidi Whitehead, executive director of the TMMSN, told Chron a necropsy was performed by the research team and samples were collected for an analysis. However, initial findings did not reveal a ...

While this partnership is growing, it already has shown great potential during the strandings of a Kogia (pygmy or dwarf sperm whale) calf and a spinner dolphin in July. On July 14, 2024, members of ...

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Mote scientists study cetaceans — dolphins and whales — as part of a multi-pronged effort to understand their lives and deaths. Our studies include the work of: The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program — ...