Bowhead whales are named for the massive bony skulls ... He recently survived a brain aneurysm, but he looked strong and alert when I met him in Savoonga, a village of about 700 people on St ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) possess the largest brain of any animal on Earth and employ a fascinatingly ... structure with its turn-taking and audience awareness. Bowhead Whales The Jazz ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) possess the largest brain of any animal on Earth and employ a fascinatingly ... structure with its turn-taking and audience awareness. Bowhead Whales The Jazz ...

The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Biologists are trying to determine what caused the death of a female gray whale that washed ashore a couple of days ago on the Washington coast. The more than 40-foot-long ...

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits.

There are fourteen species of baleen whale – including blue, bowhead, right, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales. Baleen whales are whales that have “baleen plates” instead of teeth.

Scientists have revealed the cause of death for the small minke whale that was trapped for several days in a Long Beach harbor earlier this month, according to media reports. Officials from the ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...

The carcass of a gray whale washed up on Alameda's South Shore Beach on Monday morning. The cause of death is still being determined. This is the fifth whale to die in the Bay area in recent weeks.