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 ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

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 ...

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.

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

Blue whales typically have a maximum length of 100 feet. The blue whale is a filter feeder and has a row of bristly parallel plates in its upper jaw called baleen. Baleen, which is made of the same ...

You’ll be ready before the next whale watching season! The gray whale, also known as the grey whale, grayback whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale, is a baleen whale. Baleen whales, ...

When certain algae flourish in the sea, they produce neurotoxins that can sicken both humans and marine animals. Acute ...

Image via NOAA Fisheries (TBjornstad 11:22, 18 April 2007 (UTC)), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In the times of today, blue whales stand as the largest known creatures on Earth. Their diet ...

A whale shark has left tropical waters to make a rare appearance off a town on the NSW South Coast a few hours’ drive from ...

Our study shows that while aerial urination may be rare, or rarely observed, in cetaceans, it is relatively common in botos.” ...