The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female ...

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

At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, ...

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

It’s unusual for right whales to travel around the southern tip of Florida and into the Gulf, and it’s also unusual for two adult females to travel together, said Julie Albert, with the Blue ...

The biggest animal in the world is the adult blue whale. They’re also the largest mammal in the world. Blue whales can weigh as much as 200 tons and grow up to 100 feet long — longer than an NBA ...

These deep singers in the "flight" club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde's and minke whales. Meanwhile, their higher-frequency singing brethren that fight back when attacked also tend to be slower ...

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.

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...