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  • Cetaceans
    • Mysticetes
    • Odontocetes
    • The difference between whale, sperm whale and dolphin
    • Cetacean evolution
    • Cetacean records
    • How to identify a cetacean?
    • Size comparator
    • Interactive phylogeny
    • Interactive anatomy
    • Famous cetaceans
    • Ancestral fossils
    • IUCN status by species
    • 🧭 50+ databases
    • Freshwater cetaceans
    • Epibionts & symbioses
    • Sleep in cetaceans
    • Etymology of the names
    • Diets
    • Life cycles
    • Brain & cognition
    • Aquatic behaviours
    • Swimming performance
    • Diving physiology
    • Senses: hearing & vision
    • Energy & metabolism
    • Hydrodynamics (Strouhal)
    • Lactation
    • Social cohesion
    • Mating & reproduction
    • Anatomical counts
    • Comparative morphometrics
    • Tools & techniques
    • Cognitive tests
    • Sequenced genomes
    • Hybridisations
    • Pigmentation variants
    • Diving records
    • Thermal preferences
  • Watching
    • When to watch cetaceans
    • Watching calendar
    • How should you prepare for your whale watching trip?
    • Whale watching certification labels
    • HQWW directory and associations
    • Where to watch whales and dolphins
    • Watching in the Mediterranean
    • Map of cetaceans in France
    • Marine mammals of France
    • Most recorded cetaceans (GBIF)
    • Annual migrations
    • Identify my cetacean
    • Identifying by the blow
    • Ocean currents
    • Sea level (satellite)
    • Bay of Biscay: plankton & temperature
    • Seabed types (Bay of Biscay)
    • GBIF records (Bay of Biscay)
    • Fishing & ship strikes (Bay of Biscay)
    • Ships by satellite (VesselFinder)
    • Offshore wind and cetaceans (France)
    • Cetacean distribution (DCSMM)
    • Crozet & Kerguelen
    • Marine sanctuaries worldwide
    • MPAs worldwide
  • Strandings
    • What should you do if you find a stranded cetacean?
    • The RNE (Réseau National Echouage) in France
    • Why study strandings?
    • What causes strandings?
    • Stranding map
    • Chemical pollution
    • Bycatch
    • International legal framework
    • Blue carbon
    • Climate change
    • Diseases
    • Ocean noise
    • Current demographics
    • Captivity & sanctuaries
    • Rescues
  • Media
    • Research & discoveries
    • Cetaceans and human culture
    • A history of whaling
    • Cetacean sound library
    • Video library
    • Encyclopaedia of cetacean researchers: who studies cetaceans
    • Research organisations (worldwide)
    • Audio quiz: recognise the cetacean
    • Whaling 1900-2025
    • Cetacean documentaries
    • Call library
    • 🧭 Explore all the data
    • Live hydrophones
    • Whale products
    • 📸 Cetacean photographers
    • Military marine mammals
    • Scientific bibliography
    • Quotations from cetology
    • Acoustic profile
    • Fiction films
    • History of the discoveries
    • Cetaceans in music
    • Myths & folklore
    • Skeletons in museums
    • Acoustic monitoring (PAM)
    • Tracking technologies
  • Education
    • 🧭 Explore all the tools
    • How to act
    • Bibliography & media library
    • For children
    • For teachers
    • Breath-hold calculator vs cetaceans
    • Whale falls
    • Citizen science
    • Open data
    • Watch: the FORESEA dataset
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The Cetacean Journal

News, discoveries and stories from the marine world!

Latest news from the open sea

Dive into our selection of articles to find out all about cetaceans and their environment.
La baleine boréale vit deux siècles sans cancer, et la raison n'est pas celle que l'on croyait
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The bowhead whale lives two centuries without cancer, and not for the reason that was assumed

•22 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Les codas des cachalots se comportent comme des voyelles ce que montre l’étude, et ce qu’elle ne dit pas
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Sperm whale codas behave like vowels, without our knowing what they mean

•22 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Collisions en Méditerranée pourquoi rorquals et cachalots se font percuter dans le sanctuaire Pelagos
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Ship strikes in the Mediterranean: why rorquals and sperm whales are hit in the Pelagos Sanctuary

•21 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Cinquante mille baleines à bosse sur la côte Est Australienne
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Fifty thousand humpback whales off the east coast of Australia

•20 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Une baleine à bosse identifiée en Australie puis au Brésil plus de 14 000 km, un record pour l’espèce
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A humpback whale identified in Australia and then in Brazil: more than 14,000 km, a record for the species

•19 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Naissance d’un cachalot onze femelles de deux familles étrangères se relaient pour garder le nouveau-né à la surface
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Birth of a sperm whale: eleven females from two unrelated families take turns keeping the newborn at the surface

•18 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Les narvals entrent dans le fjord dès que la glace s’ouvre, et en repartent avant qu’elle ne se referme
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Narwhals enter the fjord as soon as the ice opens, and leave before it closes again

•17 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Prospection sismique les rorquals communs cessent de vocaliser dès les premiers tirs
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Seismic surveying: fin whales stop vocalising from the first airgun shots

•16 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Pourquoi l’Islande continue de chasser la baleine, alors que presque rien ne l’y pousse
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Why Iceland goes on whaling, when almost nothing pushes it to

•16 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
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