are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth. Baleen whales, on the other hand, have large, comb-like "baleen plates" that are made from the same material as our fingernails.

It turns out the calls of flight species generally can't be heard more than 1 kilometer away by killer whales, unlike the calls of fight species. The fight or flight hypothesis is not new, but ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico—and one of the most endangered whales in the world.

The list of bizarre characteristics goes on ... The next major shift came roughly 39 million years ago when the two suborders of whales—the mysticetes (baleen whales) and the odontocetes—went their ...

The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to fathom the triumph of baleen whale evolution. The new study, published in ...

It's not exactly karaoke. These whale songs have been a source of fascination for decades. Professor Coen Elemans from the University of Southern Denmark is among a group of scientists who have ...

Researchers have identified a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that may represent the missing link between toothed and baleen whales, according to a study published today (November 29) in Current ...

Hopeful signs for declining grey whale population Unlike humans and other mammals, baleen whales don’t have teeth or vocal cords. Instead, in their voice boxes, they have a U-shaped tissue that ...

It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...