They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

The ocean is an incredible yet nerve-wracking world unto itself. Its unexplored depths are home to creatures still unknown to ...

In recent years, researchers have documented salmon surviving in North Slope rivers, bowhead whales expanding their foraging ...

Humpback whales feed by quickly lunging through a school of fish with their mouths wide open, then straining the water out through their baleen, the fringed plates they have inside their mouths ...

All kinds of animals are present on this Earth. Most animals have ravenous teeth that are used to hunt other animals. Here ...

New findings suggest the evolution and behavior of at least some baleen whales has been significantly shaped by fear of orca attack.

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to ... thousands of liters of water are filtered through their baleen plates and swallowed as a food bolus. And if their prey is plentiful ...

For humpback whales in the Pacific, their songs may be a solid indicator of the type of food that is swimming nearby. By listening in on their songs from year to year, a team of scientists found ...

Baleen whales, on the other hand, have large, comb-like "baleen plates" that are made from the same material as our fingernails. These whales use their baleen plates to filter tiny animals ...