These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

The Rice’s whale exhibit, which opened in the Sant Ocean Hall in November, features a baleen plate from a deceased whale along with plastic extracted from the animal’s stomach. Since 2007 ...

the pair shown here was made from whale baleen. This style of eyewear can even improve vision, as Ann Fienup-Riordan discovered one day in 2010. An Anchorage-based anthropologist who works with ...

There are fourteen species of baleen whale – including blue, bowhead, right, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales. Baleen whales are whales that have “baleen plates” instead of teeth.

Today, whales are divided into two main groups: the baleen whales and the toothed whales. Baleen whales, such as humpbacks and blue whales, have fibrous 'baleen' plates that help them filter large ...

In 2014, scientists first heard a unique sound coming from the waters around the Mariana Trench. Experts weren't sure what it was, but now a team of researchers led by Oregon State University have ...

It turns out the calls of flight species generally can't be heard more than 1 kilometer away by killer whales, unlike the calls of fight species. The fight or flight hypothesis is not new, but ...

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 ...