JohnL/ Shutterstock We call them beluga whales, but their scientific name, Delphinapterus leucas, means ‘white dolphin without a fin’. So, which are they – dolphins or whales? The distinctions between ...

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Galway PhD student Seán O’Callaghan develops a novel method for identifying sperm whales using aerial photographs.

You can say that again! Right whales (not to be confused with the Beluga whale, which is also nicknamed 'white whale') are an ...

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Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ... divergence in a manner paralleling how human languages have diversified throughout history. Baby Beluga whale. By Sheila Sund from Salem, United States – ...

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning, according to ...

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