There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Baleen whales evolved bristly baleen plates instead of teeth, which filter or trap krill ... Rorquals swim large distances, ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

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

Watch this clip of a kayaker getting swallowed by a humpback and spat out and then read about how it could happen.

While studying baleen whales, Branch noticed a unique character trait about the flight group, and it all had to do with the sounds they made. Whales produce a hauntingly beautiful song to communicate ...

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. More solitary than toothed whales ...

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 ...