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.
According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...
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 ...
Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...
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 ...
DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...
More than a year after a massive great white shark washed ashore in southwestern Australia, scientists have uncovered its ...
Orcas are known to attack massive whales by suffocating them. They block the whale’s blowhole, preventing it from breathing, and exhaust it until it drowns.