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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.
Une naissance de baleine à bosse filmée par drone en Australie, une première vue du ciel
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A humpback whale birth filmed by drone in Australia, a first from the air

•10 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Illustration d'un crâne fossile de baleine à bec, au long museau étroit couvert d'une croûte minérale sombre, à demi enfoui dans l'argile brun-rouge d'une plaine abyssale et éclairé par l'unique faisceau d'un submersible dans l'obscurité totale
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A 5.3-million-year-old whale necropolis found at 7,000 metres deep

•9 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Dauphins dans le bassin d’Arcachon : ce que montrent vraiment les observations de l’été
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Dolphins in the Arcachon basin: what the summer's sightings actually show

•9 August 2026•Eric GARLETTI
Baleine grise (Eschrichtius robustus) et son baleineau
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Grey whales: an AI thermal camera to avoid ship strikes

•5 June 2026
La baleine Timmy est morte en mer Baltique
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The whale Timmy has died in the Baltic Sea

•22 May 2026•Eric GARLETTI
La structure du chant des baleines à bosse révèle des similitudes avec le langage humain
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The structure of humpback whale song reveals similarities with human language

•2 August 2025•Eric GARLETTI
Les baleines fuient-elles les orques en chantant sous leur seuil d’audition
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Do whales escape killer whales by singing below their hearing threshold?

•1 August 2025•Eric GARLETTI
313 composés chimiques retrouvés dans les cétacés l’analyse choc d’Ehime
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313 chemical compounds found in cetaceans: the striking analysis from Ehime

•1 August 2025•Eric GARLETTI
Ce que les drones révèlent sur l’usage réel de la défense du narval
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What drones reveal about the narwhal’s actual use of its tusk

•1 August 2025•Eric GARLETTI
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