Whales, Dolphins and Porpoise

A study by Heide-Jørgensen and colleagues, titled “Narwhals document atlantification of East Greenland”, was published in the journal Science Advances in August 2026. Using satellite transmitters [...]

A study by Celemín and colleagues, titled “Evolution and Organisation of MHC II Genes in Harbour Porpoises: Insights From Long-Read Cetacean Genome Assemblies, Whole Genome Re- Sequencing and [...]

A study by Sequeira and colleagues, titled “Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets”, was published in the journal Science in June 2025. In [...]

A study by Marc Ruiz-Sagalés and colleagues, titled “Multielement Stable Isotope Ratios in the Baleen of Maternal and Fetal Fin Whales Provide Evidence for the Most Recently Formed Segment of [...]

A study by Jusufovski and Sigurðsson, titled “First trials of commercially available pingers for cetacean bycatch reduction in Icelandic bottom set gillnet fishery”, was published in the [...]

A study by Descamps and colleagues, titled “Biodiversity changes in Arctic coastal ecosystems under borealization”, was published in the PNAS Nexus Journal in February 2026. Climate change is a [...]

A study by Petitguyot and colleagues, titled “European stranding networks as a tool for monitoring marine mammal populations (Part I): towards optimising the functioning of networks”, was [...]

A study by Louis and colleagues, titled “Impact of tusk anomalies on the long-term foraging ecology of narwhals”, was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution in November 2025. Narwhals are [...]

A study by Lopes and colleagues, titled “Population structure and divergence time among East Greenland and West Greenland/Eastern Canadian Arctic narwhals, Monodon monoceros”, was published in [...]

The Report of the NAMMCO Working Group on Pilot Whales is now available! The Working Group, chaired by Philip Hammond, met in November 2025 to conduct a stock assessment of long-finned pilot [...]