The angles and quality of preservation of the specimens’ skulls have made it difficult ... like a bowhead or right whale, rather than diving deep like a humpback. While baleen is a soft tissue ...

But researchers have struggled to understand the animal’s feeding behavior and lifestyle because none of the skulls were ... with the baleen whales. Modern bowhead and right whales are species ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Saturday he is being investigated over a decades-old story that he decapitated a dead whale and transported its skull across state lines. Kennedy made the admission ...

The skull at Pajaro Dunes State Beach in Watsonville probably belongs to either a fin or blue whale, experts told SFGate. “They’re both gigantic whales,” Robert Boessenecker, chief ...

The huge, ancient whale ... skull has now been taken to the Alabama School of Math and Science, where it is being cleared and studied. Gentry and Stallworth plan to resume excavations next year ...