A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of ...

They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

Depending on the species, whale songs can also travel thousands ... To monitor and track these baleen whales, scientists deploy underwater microphones called hydrophones. In the new study, the ...

They then use hundreds of baleen plates to filter the water out, trapping krill and other small fish inside their mouths to ...

Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean reveals year-to-year variations that track changes in the availability of the species they forage on, reports a new study led by John Ryan ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders are particularly vulnerable when they have calves. Baleen whales communicate with each other across the expanse of the ...

There are many more toothed whale species than baleen whale species — 77 species of toothed whale (including dolphins and porpoises), compared with only 15 baleen whale species. Well-known ...

Example photo of a humpback whale fluke from which identification of individuals is enabled through distinction of fluke shape and coloration. This photo by T. Cheeseman is of the individual most ...