They eat squid, octopus, fish, prawns, crustaceans and other marine mammals, sucking in their prey and swallowing it whole. Whales with baleen, a filter-feeding system, eat smaller prey like krill ...

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...

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

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

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.

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

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales – those that eat using a system in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. Experts have divided baleen whales into ...

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

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 ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that eat using a system in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. Experts have divided baleen whales into two ...