PBS

Arizona Dept. of Water Resources Legal Decision, Dementia Study, Andes Volcanoes and Whales

Judge rules against Arizona Dept. of Water Resources; CASS dementia research; Volcanic ashes study A Maricopa County Superior Court Judge ruled the Arizona Department of Water Resources acted ...

PBS, BBC Set New ‘Nova’ Evolution Science Series Tracing ‘The Epic Journey of Life’ (EXCLUSIVE)

PBS science strand “Nova” is set to explore the “epic journey of life” in a new series about evolution. “Nova: Evolution” is a five-part series from the GBH documentary unit together with the BBC and ...
WGBH

NEW NOVA SERIES “EVOLUTION,” A BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTION WITH NOVA AND GBH FOR PBS AND BBC, TRACES THE HISTORY OF LIFE ITSELF

Boston, MA – July 8, 2026 – The award-winning PBS science series, NOVA, part of the GBH documentary unit, today announced EVOLUTION, a new five-part series that traces the epic journey of life, from a ...
Courthouse News Service

Whale calls reveal cultural evolution

Scientists catch sperm whale dialects evolving in the Mediterranean Sea.(Asociación Tursiops) (CN) — Scientists have caught sperm whale dialects changing over time. Researchers studying the endangered ...
History With Kayleigh Official on MSN

37-million-year-old whale skeletons in Egypt’s desert help explain whale evolution

Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt’s Western Desert preserves one of the most important fossil records in the world for understanding how whales evolved from land mammals into fully aquatic animals. The site ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sperm Whales Living in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea Seem to Have Developed a Distinct Dialect From Those in the West

All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...
PBS

Oregon’s Gray Whales

Why a population of gray whales summers off the Oregon Coast instead of migrating Why do gray whales perform gymnastic headstands and rolls in the shallow waters off the Oregon Coast all summer long ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

Whales Appear to Be Evolving a New Dialect in The Mediterranean Sea

A sperm whale group in the Mediterranean (including one albino individual). (Asociación Tursiops) In the sparkling blue ...
Science Daily

Sperm whales caught headbutting each other on camera for the first time

Drone footage has revealed sperm whales headbutting each other—something scientists had only speculated about until now. Surprisingly, it’s younger whales doing it, not the giant males researchers ...
Science Daily

New fossils reveal a hidden branch in human evolution

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...
Nature

Stare into a whale’s colossal eye — June’s best science images

Desert farm. This aerial photograph shows the Kubuqi Desert Ordos Central-Northern New Energy Base, a massive renewable-energy project under construction in the Kubuqi desert in northwest China, near ...