UNSW scientists have added to the growing body of research into genetic markers that are important for animal conservation. Certain…
Until recently it was believed that the solitary nature of Araguaian dolphins meant that they wouldn’t have much use for…
Rivalling the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs, one of the most extraordinary transformations in the history of life was the…
Between 1913 and 1989, the coastguard, fishermen and members of the public sent the Museum their sightings of whale and…
Whales and dolphins live in human-like societies and share similar brain evolution to primates and man, scientist have concluded. A…
Harry Brower Sr. was lying in a hospital bed in Anchorage, Alaska, close to death, when he was visited by…
Scientists have determined that a skull that had been sitting in a drawer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural…
No one knew what lay within the grey chunk of rock – or how significant it would prove to be.…
A newly discovered fossil in Panama is showing scientists that river dolphins had a very interesting evolutionary path as they…
Researchers from Otago University have linked an ancient marine dolphin fossil, found in Waitaki, with an endangered dolphin that lives…