Recent advances in neuroimaging and molecular analyses have considerably enriched our understanding of cetacean brain anatomy and the evolutionary pressures shaping its distinctive features. Cetaceans ...

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...

Humans don’t hear that well underwater. But cetaceans – a group of marine mammals that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises – use sound in diverse ways. Baleen whales produce low-frequency calls ...