Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing at ...
The Department of Fisheries (DOF) is calling on the public to play an active role in safeguarding whale and marine mammal ...
It is concerning if they die off as it means the sea – which we rely on for many things – is no longer healthy, says an ...
Scientists in Thailand just discovered the stunningly well-preserved remains of a whale that lived between 3,000 and 5,000 ...
The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...
Incredible footage showing a man briefly being 'swallowed' by a whale is the latest in seemingly similar, yet mostly benign ...
The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female ...
Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...