Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

These colossal creatures can produce nearly 950 liters of urine per day, and this waste is far from useless. By releasing it ...

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery ...

Here we’ll discover exactly why baleen whales migrate and where they travel to. Baleen whales mainly feed on krill, plankton, and small fish. They feed by taking in great mouthfuls of water ...

Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico—and one of the most endangered whales in the world.

Delphinidae is the family that includes all oceanic dolphin species. Orcas, also known as killer whales, are the largest dolphins and some of the world’s most powerful predators. All dolphins are ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) is making waves in the scientific community following the excavation of a ...