In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat […] ...
A jaw-dropping video from Chile has captured the moment when a humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed. The incident, filmed in the frigid waters of the ...
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
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 ...
The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...
Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.
The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.
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 ...