Ocean Alliance is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its pioneering whale research drone, the SnotBot, with a free family-friendly community event Thursday, July 10, from 4 to 8 p.m at ...

Cetacean Opps was just recently canonized in the Star Trek universe, but much about them remains unknown, but all of that is ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when ...

First, recent advances in technology enable deeper understanding of cetacean behavior. Bioacoustics, artificial intelligence, drones and movement tags have delivered an onslaught of information ...

Consistent with that argument, Fox et al. (2017) suggested that cetacean encephalisation is predicted by social organisation, brain size being indicative of the breadth of social and cultural ...

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.

SOUZA: It's the largest collection of cetacean brains from Latin America. DANIEL: In this fridge alone, she's got a brain from a pygmy sperm whale, various dolphin species and more.

Neuroscientist Kamilla Souza is bringing the study of whale and dolphin brains to her home country of Brazil. Now there's a team of Brazilian scientists intent on understanding the marine mammals.