Fewer than 7% of global hotspots for whaleship collisions have protection measures in place, researchers report

Nov 21, 2024

According to the fossil record, cetaceans—whales, dolphins and their relatives—evolved from four-legged land mammals that returned to the oceans beginning some 50 million years ago. Today, their descendants are threatened by a different land-based mammal that has also returned to the sea: humans.