Professor Coen Elemans from the University of Southern Denmark is among a group of scientists who have been studying how these sounds are made. "There is about 18 species of whales, large baleen ...

Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

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 ...

are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth. Baleen whales, on the other hand, have large, comb-like "baleen plates" that are made from the same material as our fingernails.

These things can tell us about the evolutionary history of whales.” “For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth.” ...

This is the case with Kerr Thomson’s adventure, The Sound Of Whales. The story takes place on Nin, a remote island off the north coast of Scotland, where the islanders make their living from the ...

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders ...