First responders said the dolphin's flesh appeared to have been 'butchered' when its carved carcass washed up on a Jersey ...

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

Dolphins are fascinating marine creatures known for their intelligence, social behaviour, and unique hunting techniques.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

“The government of Mexico has only itself to blame for these long-overdue sanctions as multiple administrations have shamefully failed to protect the vaquita — the country’s only endemic cetacean ...

Genetic mixing is the secret to Killer Whale resilience and adaptability. Photo: Nick ThakeKiller whale populations in low latitudes have high genetic ...