Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

KELLY: It's the song of a humpback whale, a type of baleen whale. COEN ELEMANS: All the baleen whales make extremely low frequency sounds, and it sounds like a bit like humming, like, (imitating whale ...

A research team of Cal Poly statisticians and marine biologists from UC San Diego have developed a new way to monitor local ...

People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest ...

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. As far as deep-sea ...

A new approach to better assessing whale population data has emerged, led by a research team of marine biologists from ...

Tourists are helping scientists by documenting a rare humpback whale phenomenon whose function is not understood. Known as ...

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers studying rare humpback ‘jaw-gaping’ believe the move could be a social display ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.