But whale species also produce loud underwater songs. What stops killer whales from homing in on their calls and attacking ...

New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they’re completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below ...

Boaters got “lucky enough” to spot a plethora of sea creatures off the coast of California, spotting multiple species in one ...

Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave their Antarctic feeding grounds in January every year and spend three ...

There are many more toothed whale species than baleen whale species — 77 species of toothed whale (including dolphins and porpoises), compared with only 15 baleen whale species.

Baleen whales use their baleen plates as a sieve. They take in huge mouthfuls of water and food and then push the water out through the plates, leaving only the food behind in their mouth. Different ...

Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research.

Because baleen whales — of which there are 16 species, including Humpback, Blue and Fin whales — are too large to study in captivity, biologists have had to infer their hearing ability from ...

“We didn’t know how to age baleen whales until 1955, which was the very end of industrial whaling,” said Breed. “By the time we figured it out, there weren’t many old whales left to study.

Some baleen whale species sing at frequencies below 100 hertz, making their calls undetectable to killer whales, which cannot hear such low frequencies. These species, ...

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 ...