how other animals interact with them and from models of their anatomy. Scientists know, from recordings and other observations, that baleen whales rely on hearing for social communication and that ...

The baleen whales began developing the long keratin sheets that enable ... s most interesting findings is that these three occurrences of rapid changes in the anatomy of the skull “correlate with ...

Hopeful signs for declining grey whale population Unlike humans and other mammals, baleen whales don’t have ... But Reidenberg, who works for the Center for Anatomy and Functional Morphology ...

The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico—and one of the most endangered whales in the world.

Researchers have identified a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that may represent the missing link between toothed and baleen whales, according to a study published today (November 29) in Current ...