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 ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

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.

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.