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

On 4 July, the spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii), which has never been seen alive, washed up on a beach in Otago, ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

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 ...

The whale shark isn’t just the largest fish in the world, it’s the largest animal that’s not a cetacean. The average length ...

France and Spain each received a reasoned opinion in July 2022 because of their lack of action to prevent dolphin bycatch in ...

It's not the most conventional cargo - but staff specialising in cetacean strandings are used to the unorthodox. Since 1913, scientists have been given priority access to any cetaceans (whales, ...