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

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

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

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

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Humpback whale song recording from 2017. Male humpback whales sing long, elaborate songs, which are composed of a variety of sounds strung together in repeated phrases and themes. All the male ...

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 ...

These deep singers in the “flight” club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde’s and minke whales. Meanwhile, their higher-frequency singing brethren that fight back when attacked also tend to be ...