The Sea of Cortez, also known as the Gulf of California, is a unique corner ... that scientists use to find these whales is by using underwater directional microphones. With the largest brain ...

The area’s underwater submarine canyon means they may swim much closer to shore than elsewhere along the California coast, said Talty. The team didn’t initially grasp the sheer size of the super pod ...

More species are declining than are improving, but some bright spots show that conservation efforts can bring species back.

University of California at Davis, Klimley has studied scalloped hammerheads at an underwater mountain, or seamount, known as El Baho Espiritu Santo in the Gulf of California off Mexico for two ...