North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered. Now, they're unexpectedly showing up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Dolphins Can 'See' Underwater By Using 'Echolocation' Technique, Scientists Find A team of researchers has managed to delve ...

Scientists mapped dolphin and whale brains to uncover how echolocation works, revealing they may use sound more like touch ...

Bones from sperm whales were the most abundant, followed by fin whales, gray whales, right or bowhead whales – two species ... And the rest of the whale would also certainly have been used – teeth or ...

Southern right whales are large migratory baleen whales that can be spotted off the Australian coastline in winter as they travel north. The whales come close to shore, which made them ideal, or ...

It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...

Baleen whales have a special structure in their mouth that enables them to filter feed. Instead of teeth, they have baleen plates that hang down from their upper jaw. These are made from keratin – the ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales.

By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted the whales to the brink of extinction for their oil and baleen. They called them the "right" whales to hunt because they were slow and floated ...

By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted the whales to the brink of extinction for their oil and baleen. They called them the "right" whales to hunt because they were slow and floated ...

You might not consider Florida a hot spot whale watching; however, you can see right whales during winter. ... North Atlantic right whales are one of the three species of large baleen whales.