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. 31 in Marine ...

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 ...

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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

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

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...