Check out some of the Press

about the Madagascar Omura’s Whale Project!

An Elusive Whale is Found All Around the World Researchers are learning about a newly identified species of baleen whales, tracing sightings and sounds to learn that they stay mainly in tropical waters Read more about our recent work in the New York Times Science Section

Photo: S. Cerchio

Thriller whales! Fantastic article in TuftsNow about Sal’s research and the history of Omura’s whales.

This Bus-size Whale is Even More Unusual Than We Thought - a great article from National Geographic about our project.

Dr. Salvatore Cerchio is a marine mammal biologist at the New England Aquarium. In November 2015, he went off the grid to study Omura's whales off the coast of Madagascar. Experience his journey through our blogs. http://explorers.neaq.org/search/label/Madagascar2015

More Underwater Video of Nearly Unknown Whale Species - Press release from The New England Aquarium with some of our video footage from the field season.

 New Whale Species, and New Ways to Study Them All - Heather Goldstone from WCAI interviewed Sal on Living Labs about Omura's whales and his work.

Also, over 50 news outlets wrote about our work or posted our videos, including:  Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, The Mother Nature Network, HuffPost Science, Science Recorder, Discover Magazine,  Cape Cod News, The Boston Globe, USA Today, El Pais, and LeMonde.

Initial Press About the Research : October / November 2015

Hundreds of news outlets picked up the news about the first documentation of a living population of Omura's whales in the fall of 2015! Here are just a few:

Dr. Salvatore Cerchio of the New England Aquarium and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and an international team of whale biologists have just released images and detailed descriptions on the first scientific observations in the wild ever of Omura's whales, one of the least known species of whales in the world.