WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot. The blue whale, the largest ...

Nick Pyenson first fell in love with natural history museums as a child, growing up in Montreal when his parents would take him to McGill University’s Redpath Museum and Harvard’s Museum of ...

This is a part of Oceans Month, where we explore the science throughout the world’s oceans and meet the people who study them. Want to dive in with us? Find all of our stories here. Whales are ...

The following is an excerpt from Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson. I was never a whale hugger. I didn’t fall asleep snuggling stuffed ...

Nick Pyenson is author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures (Viking, 2018), and curator of Fossil Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s ...

Shane meets Nick Pyenson, a biologist studying ancient and living whales. Shane steps into a land of giants at the to meet Nick Pyenson, a biologist who studies ancient (and living) whales, to find ...

Just before humans evolved, whales and dolphins were, pound for pound, the brainiest creatures on Earth. Another cetacean superlative: Today’s biggest whales are heftier than the largest dinosaurs ...

KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies gift of Nick Pyenson. KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies signed by author. "Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.

In February 2015, we are partnering with the Field Book Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Libraries, and NMNH staff to transcribe the field notes and correspondence of Frederick ...

WASHINGTON — In less than a year, the Smithsonian unveils its much-anticipated fossil hall, featuring the return of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Debuting alongside the daunting dinosaur are the fossils of ...

A few months ago I learned that, as recently as 1972, General Motors was using sperm-whale oil in transmission fluid in its cars. I’m not sure why I was surprised to learn this. It took nearly another ...

An overcast stroll on a rocky, oil-stained shoreline is probably not your idea of a day at the beach. It didn’t bother us. We were wandering up and down Qatar’s coast to find the bones of recently ...