Dolphins exposed to cyanobacterial toxins show Alzheimer’s-like brain damage and disorientation, which may explain mysterious strandings.

Some of the world’s smartest animals live below the surface, and in the Indian Ocean, a particular kind of whale may just be rewriting everything we thought we knew about intelligence in the deep.

A cold-activated protein that mends damaged DNA could play a part in keeping the bowhead whale in tip-top shape.

Discovered: Cooking helped humans evolve large brains; beluga vocalizations strikingly similar to human speech; how the dung beetle keeps its cool; measuring consciousness. Measuring consciousness ...

The absence of zombie worms on these bones suggests that the expanding oxygen minimum zones in the northeast Pacific and ...

George Washington Crile (1864-1943)—an Ohio surgeon, and co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic—made casts of animal organs for his study of metabolism. This is his cast of the brain of a white whale.

Say, for instance, a whale’s suspected cause of death is a boat strike. Researchers will look out for bruises and cuts during ...