World's smallest baleen whale is the last of its kind
15 July 2023
Pygmy right whales are evolutionarily distinct and may be part of a whale family long thought to be extinct
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Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming
27 March 2023
Protecting or expanding the populations of nine key groups of animals, including wolves and whales, would remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere
Blue whales could be eating 10 million pieces of plastic every day
1 November 2022
Combining data on pollution concentrations and whale feeding habits has revealed that filter-feeding whales could be ingesting huge levels of microplastics
Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales
7 March 2022
A 1.4-million-year-old fossil relative of killer whales had teeth that suggest it ate small fish rather than large marine mammals
Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought
3 November 2021
Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for marine ecosystems
Two groups of whales evolved massive heads for different reasons
30 July 2021
Bowhead and right whales are among the biggest animals alive today, but a new look at how they evolved suggests that the two groups ballooned in size independently of each other, and probably for different reasons
Whales and dolphins can resist cancer and their DNA reveals why
24 February 2021
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are much better at fighting cancer than we are, and a DNA analysis brings us closer to understanding why cetaceans can do this
A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico
28 January 2021
Baleen whales include the largest animals ever to exist, but despite their size, they remain mysterious – and a new species has just been found near the US south coast
Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones
9 July 2020
A fossil of an ancient giant tusked dolphin lacks the extra vertebrae and short pectoral bones that make fast swimmers of dolphins and baleen whales, which later independently evolved these traits
Huge whales may have evolved millions of years earlier than we thought
1 May 2019
It was thought baleen whales suddenly evolved to be massive 2.5 million years ago, but new evidence suggests the change was more gradual and much earlier
