In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat […] ...
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
Remember when Cape Cod lobster diver Michael Packard was swallowed by a humpback whale off Provincetown? It happened again in Chile. See the new video ...
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself.
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.
Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.
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 ...
A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...