One of the world’s largest mammals, the humpback whale is an incredible species for many reasons. They may even be the ...

An imposing Bryde's whale skeleton is displayed outside an aquarium. Visitors were stunned to find the 55ft massive whale ...

The blue whale is the largest animal to have ever lived and has been known to reach a whopping 110 feet long. Baleen whales mainly feed on krill, plankton, and small fish.

Whales are the biggest animal on the planet, dolphins are comparably smaller, but are they all one “big” happy family? They ...

Nearly two dozen whales have died in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent months, according to animal rescue groups.

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 ...

Containing 16 different whale species, the biggest of the baleen whales — the blue whale — measures in at a staggering 31 meters (102 feet) and 190 tons (210 short tons).

At least 24 dead whales have been discovered in the waters near San Francisco this year, according to the California Academy ...

A 15-foot minke whale was beached on the rocks at low tide, believed to be an incidence of poisoning by an algal bloom.

A baleen whale's larynx differs from other mammals in that it features a long, rigid, cylinder-like U-shape that "allows massive expiratory and inspiratory air flows during surface breathing ...

Life World's smallest baleen whale stays home instead of migrating to feed The pygmy right whale doesn't go on long migrations for food or reproduction, unlike most other species of baleen whale ...

New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they’re completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below ...