Where, when, and how to see marine mammals in the Golden State, from sunny SoCal to the Bay Area.

At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern ...

LNG projects threaten catastrophic environmental damage to the Sea of Cortez and its marine life. Artists and activists are ...

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The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...

According to researchers with Project CETI, a US non-profit working to understand sperm whales, the clicks known as "codas" ...

Sperm whales are not alone in showing advanced communication. Dolphins, for example, use signature whistles that function ...

Our closest living ancestors descended from primates, but does this mean we don’t share any commonalities with other, non-primate species? A recent discovery is challenging the extent to which we are ...

When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has published two scientific studies presenting the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale birth ever recorded and the first quantitative ...

Adult female whales gathered to help during birth process They lifted the newborn to sea surface for first breaths Birth process observed in Caribbean off Dominica's coast March 26 (Reuters) - When a ...

On July 8, 2023, whale biologist Shane Gero was on a boat off the coast of Dominica when he realized something “strange” was going on. A group of sperm whales known as “Unit A” that he and his ...