Two new exhibitions inspired by the life and skeleton of the whale Staccato — a grandmother North Atlantic right whale whose remains came to UMass’ natural history collection after her death in 1999 — ...
Whales use complex communication systems we still don’t understand, a trope exploited in sci-fi shows like Apple TV’s Extrapolations. That show featured a humpback whale (voiced by Meryl Streep) ...
A humpback whale off New Caledonia can hold a song for 30 minutes or longer, cycling through phrases that shift and evolve ...
At one point in Douglas Adams's hilarious Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a baby sperm whale has some thoughts as it plummets toward the planet Magrathea. This appealing but doomed animal had just ...
There are approximately 90 species of whales, and they live in oceans all around the world. One of the rarest species of ...