Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Researchers collected DNA samples from the distinctive bite wounds on the shark’s body that washed ashore near Portland, ...

More than a year after a massive great white shark washed ashore in southwestern Australia, scientists have uncovered its ...

It's confirmed: the orca has targeted Australia's great white sharks. A recent study, published in the scientific journal ...

DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...

Researchers used DNA evidence to confirm orcas killed a 15-foot great white shark discovered mangled on an Australian beach.

The researchers took swabs from the white shark's bite wounds and sequenced for any genetic material that the predator may ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

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