A stunning video from Chile shows a humpback whale briefly scooping a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Last week, a kayaker in Chile learned just how dangerous it is to get too close to feeding humpback whales during an outing ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

A discovery on how baleen whales are able to sing under water is ... and it's an invisible pollutant to the human eye," she said. Singing is only one of the sounds that whales make, said ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth. 'But baleen whales do grow teeth in the womb. Those teeth will be ...

Some baleen whales, or whales that have plates in their mouths to help sieve out plankton, sing low-frequency songs to not only attract potential mates but also keep them safe from killer whale ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...