Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Marine Conservation Charity ORCA’s “State of the Cetaceans 2024 ... and the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Humpback whale populations are strongly recovering on their feeding grounds ...

Visitors can book a whale-watching boat trip to get up close. However, Bodega Head—part of Sonoma Coast State Park—is one of ...

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

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.