Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the 'triumph' of baleen whale evolution. The new study explores the key genetic ...

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...

Humans don’t hear that well underwater. But cetaceans – a group of marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – use sound in diverse ways. Baleen whales produce low-frequency calls ...

Synopsis of the earliest cetaceans : Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae / Ellen M. Williams -- Middle to Late Eocene basilosaurines and dorudontines / Mark D. Uhen -- ...