Quark Expeditions' 2026-27 Antarctic season includes 43 departures with 13 itineraries, the new ship World Voyager, a new ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict endangered whale habitat, guiding ships along the Atlantic coast to avoid them. The tool is designed to prevent ...

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

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

This isn't Vancouver-specific so much as regional; there was a breed of dog unique to the area. The Salish Woolly dog was a ...

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

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

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 ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

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 ...

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