https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A team of researchers from Epitracker, Inc. and Seraphina Therapeutics, Inc., working with the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program, has found that dolphins age at different rates. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of captive dolphins over a 25-year period and what they learned about them. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dolphin-mammals-age.html Plants & Animals Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:50:02 EDT news516357274 Scientists know that age and weight are risk factors in the development of cancer. That should mean that whales, which include some of the largest and longest-lived animals on Earth, have an outsized risk of developing cancer. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-dna-world-largest-mammals-whales.html Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 09 May 2019 10:20:01 EDT news476615619