EditorialTrainers with dolphins that they are feeding during a training session in the U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammal Program at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego on Nov. 8, 2022. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA dolphin leaps into the air at the U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammal Program at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego on Nov. 9, 2022. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialThe lower jaw of a stegodon, an ancient elephant-like mammal at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, Nov. 3, 2022. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)
EditorialKathi George of the Marine Mammal Center discussed the route to a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales before its checkup, about 25 miles off San Francisco Bay, Calif, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)