The drones carry Petri dishes and hover over the blowholes of northern whales. Droplets of their respiratory fluid land on ...

New footage shows orcas and dolphins coordinating hunts, hinting at interspecies teamwork to track and catch salmon off ...

Discover the key differences between dolphins and whales, including their size, body structure, feeding habits, social ...

Off the Pacific coast of Canada, scientists have captured something that challenges long‑held assumptions about life in the ...

We could all use a buddy to help us track down dinner from time to time. Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

The relationship between whales and dolphins has long been shrouded in mystery. But, new research reveals that — despite their vast difference in size — these marine mammals often enjoy playful ...

In the case of dolphins, they have the potential to measure skin temperature and breathing patterns based on the heat emitted ...

Continuing our beastly series of animals in London.

Darren Lucciana took his family for a boat ride on Washington's Puget Sound — a popular spot for whale watching — when three ...

As io9 explains, researchers in Britain and China studied the genetic material of twelve whale and dolphin species, including bottlenose dolphins and sperm whales (those are the ones you are probably ...