There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...

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 ...

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

The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...

The marine animals, a type of baleen whale found in the southern hemisphere ... To reach their conclusion, researchers pored over photo identification data collected over the course of four ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

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.

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if they are more likely to fight or flee from a predator. Killer ...

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 ...