In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat […] ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

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

An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — ...

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

Take a closer look at some of the incredible whale species that you might see visit our waters if you are lucky enough!

From marathon treks by gray whales across thousands of kilometres to shorter seasonal excursions by minkes, migration routes ...

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 ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

baleen whales face predatory attacks from killer whales, especially mother and calf pairs. When attacked, some species fight back, while others choose flight. But whale species also produce loud ...