When it's pressurized, and flow stops, sound stops,” says Joy Reidenberg, a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City who studies whale anatomy. An illustration of a ...

In their study, Gil and her researcher team examined the throats of 19 deceased blue and fin whales. They looked closely at the anatomy of the throat, carefully dissecting and manipulating ...

And that growing understanding of the anatomy of dolphins ... Copying the collapsing lungs of dolphins and whales seems unfruitful, too; human lungs are sticky and don’t readily reinflate ...

Baleen whales inherited this laryngeal anatomy from their land-mammal ancestors ... larynx, trachea and lungs). It is then pushed from the lungs back to the larynx for sound production.

As mammals, toothed whales have to breathe air into their lungs. Other mammals can breathe ... The vibrations are then guided by the bizarre anatomy of a toothed whale’s head.

Another organ susceptible to compression damage is the lung. In deep-diving whales and seals, the peripheral airways are reinforced, and it is postulated that this allows the lungs to collapse ...