In 1927 Museum staff commandeered trains to transport 126 false killer whales from Scotland to South Kensington. It's not the most conventional cargo - but staff specialising in cetacean strandings ...

The vaquita, the world's smallest and rarest cetacean, is a porpoise species found only in the northern Gulf of California ...

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 ...

Small whales, dolphins and porpoises are hunted for commercial and subsistence purposes across the globe. They are killed for human consumption, fisheries bait, and to reduce the perceived competition ...

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 ...

Cetaceans assist with ship navigation, and intelligent whales are part of Cetacean Ops. Cetacean Ops divisions were on famous Starfleet ships in the Star Trek universe. The concept of Cetacean Ops ...

Prior to the current research, the most recent cetacean survey—conducted in Kaimana in 2015—had recorded 64 pods of Australian humpback dolphins and 40 pods of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp ...

An international team of marine biologists have published research in Molecular Ecology that shows the benefits of gene flow ...

Now only about 10 vaquita likely remain on Earth. “The government of Mexico has only itself to blame for these long-overdue sanctions as multiple administrations have shamefully failed to protect the ...