Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet. That's right: The biggest whale ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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.

In a now viral Facebook post, video captured an extremely rare sighting of an endangered whale species along Alabama’s Gulf ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

It's a setback for commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations during President Donald Trump’s ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...