Two melon-headed whales stranded in December, one on Tybee Island and the other on Sea Island, marking the first documented ...

The bodies of two male melon-headed whales were found 50 miles apart along the southeastern coast of the United States.

Risso’s dolphins are closely related to pilot whales, pygmy killer whales, melon-headed whales, and false killer whales.

A deep-ocean creature washed up on a Georgia beach for the first time — and two days later, so did another. The Tybee Island Marine Science Center received a report about a dolphin stranded on the ...

State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on a beach in Kihei.

Beluga whales are listed as Least Concern on the IUCN red list, though they do face challenges. Beluga’s heads are called melons. Really. The melon is a protrusion on a beluga’s forehead, made up of ...

They are one of the most easily identifiable of whale species because of their melon-shaped heads and white ... Though Beluga whales are Arctic creatures, they are also highly migratory, coming ...

Sperm whales assign a designated babysitter at the surface while ... After spending some time with them, they found out that the male calf was actually a melon-headed dolphin. Adoption in the wild is ...

false killer whales, melon head whales, pygmy sperm whales, and humpbacks. The big draw though is the pod of sperm whales which inhabits Dominica’s waters. The whale watching tours use hydrophone ...

Beluga whale showing the large frontal prominence that houses the melon. Credit: Steve Snodgrass / CC BY 2.0 ... broadening our understanding of biodiversity. Beluga whales revealed an unexpected form ...