Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

TOBA, Mie Prefecture—The number of wild finless porpoises descending on Toba Port here seems to have increased this year, a boon for both a ferry operator and picture-taking passengers.

Visitors can watch fishermen hauling in traps and coming in and out of the harbor in their boats at the Cape Porpoise Pier, just as they have done for years. Other activities include shopping in ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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The Yangtze finless porpoise is a remarkable yet critically endangered marine mammal inhabiting China’s longest river, the Yangtze. Known for its strikingly intelligent nature and perpetual smile, ...

I recognized immediately that it belonged to the vaquita, a species of porpoise found only in the northern reaches of the Gulf of California. Its eyes are airbrushed in shadows, ringed by a white ...

That sameness keeps biologists chasing one big puzzle: if the instructions are nearly identical everywhere, who wrote the first edition? The answer points to LUCA – the Last Universal Common Ancestor ...

(via Minute Earth) There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of ...

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