It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

The North Atlantic Ocean is warming up. Higher temperatures and increased human activity in the region can trigger abrupt ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily ...

Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To better understand and protect this endangered species, scientists must piece ...

On the 20th anniversary of the Northern Bottlenose Whale found in the River Thames - here's looking at all the creatures ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

Bones thought to be world's youngest mammoths for 70 years turn out to be whales. DNA reveals shocking truth about Alaska ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

ABSTRACT: Developmental changes in the body proportions of western North Pacific Bryde’s whales (Balaenoptera edeni) were investigated by examining the proportion of each body part to the total body ...

For decades, a pair of vertebrae found in Alaska were believed to belong to the youngest woolly mammoths ever discovered. But new research has revealed that the bones actually came from marine whales, ...