This exhibition, which, through the dialogue between the disciplines of art, science and technology, calls attention to how ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale fatally assaulted the over-15-foot-long shark, then proceeded to devour its ...

A new study observed Amazon river dolphins for 218.9 hours and saw males spurt urine into the air 36 times—proof that the ...

She herself has stated that "once cetaceans pass the critical point of aquatic adaptation, their evolution follows a path of no return." In addition, this extreme dependence on the aquatic ...

This prehistoric quadruped discovered on the coast of Peru was similar to a modern-day otter or beaver — except it was 13 ...

“We expect them to evolve to be easy to learn,” said Simon Kirby, an expert on language evolution at the University ... pattern in a diverse array of cetaceans, including humpbacks, which ...

who’s co-authored research on ear bone convergence in cetaceans. ‘Their ear bones have to be a particular shape to maximise their hearing ability at those depths.’ This evolution in toothed whales ...

This discovery has big implications for how we understand evolution and marine biodiversity. Cetaceans like dolphins and orcas are now essentially “trapped” in their watery ways due to their ...

This is a skill parrots share with songbirds, hummingbirds, humans, cetaceans, and a few other ... and hypothesized that it helped drive the evolution of human intelligence.