Discover 10 lesser-known facts about the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Learn about its diet, communication, ...

When the blue whale eats, it simply opens its mouth and lunges forward into a great cloud of krill. The ventral pleats allow its throat to expand like bellows. Then, it uses its baleen to strain much ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Whale Watchers Encounter 100-Ft-Long Blue Whale. Image via Depositphotos. This is subspecies of Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) with size comparison for scuba ...

Whale Watchers occurrant 100-Ft-Long Blue Whale. Imago per Depositphotos. This is subspecies of Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) with size comparison for scuba ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

Supplementary Audio 1 | Audio associated to the series of stereotyped North Atlantic blue whale calls and down-sweeps represented on Figure 2D at 76.6 km, sped up 3.5 times. Supplementary Audio 2 | ...

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