Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

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

Researchers collected DNA samples from the distinctive bite wounds on the shark’s body that washed ashore near Portland, ...

Rival parties clashed on Friday over the Blue Whale drilling project, after an economic feasibility study yielded disappointing results for one of the sites in the East Sea ...

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

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...