Toothed whales have teeth instead of the keratinous baleen that blue whales and others use to feed ... The three whale ...

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.

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 ...

Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

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

The whales, named after a 19th century Norwegian whaler, do not have teeth, but baleen plates that filter out prey, usually small schooling fish. When Bryde's whales hunt, they emerge vertically ...

These love tokens were made from whale bone, baleen, walrus tusks, and sperm whale teeth and often depicted portraits of their loved ones, pictures of their ships, and patriotic imagery.

Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through ... was published in January in Communications Earth & Environment. "We made novel measurements of whale feces to assess how ...

As their name suggests, baleen whales (Mysticetes) do not have teeth. Instead, they have baleen, a bristle-like substance composed of keratin. This helps them filter krill and other animals from the ...