There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

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

A man swallowed up by a humpback whale before being spat out. Adrián Simancas was near the San Isidro Lighthouse in the ...

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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 the ...

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

A welcome sight Thursday morning: Orcas in the Puget Sound. Experts say there’s one distinct thing people should know about ...