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.

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.

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 ...

The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

The ventral pleats allow its throat to expand like bellows. Then, it uses its baleen to strain much of the water out of its mouth and swallows the krill. Blue whales do “sing,” but their vocalizations ...

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 ...

Only male whales sing as part of an elaborate courtship display to prove their worth to potential mates. Other ways to woo a whale can include physical competition, where males charge at speed all in ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.