One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

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

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 ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

A mother whale and her calif were spotted close to the busy shipping lanes at the entrance to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. There are only about 370 right whales left, including ...

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.

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

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 ...

The “fight” club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales ... reviewed the source frequency and source level of populations of all baleen whales, and combined these with knowledge ...