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 ...

More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face predatory attacks ... The “fight” club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

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 ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

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

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 ...

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by ...

Yesterday (February 10), a young humpback whale was reported to be entangled in creel fishing gear to the north-east of Skye.