Australia's population of Southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to recover from whaling, but a ...

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale species that inhabits waters off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. During the summer, these whales migrate north to ...

While the study focuses on gray, humpback, and right whales, it’s likely that other large baleen whales also contribute to this process. However, due to limited data on their distribution and ...

Southern right whales are migratory baleen whales. Each year they visit the shallow coastal waters of Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. Sheltered waters in these regions ...

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery ...

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and federal marine researchers are investigating the cause of death of a minke ...

Whale carcasses sinking to the ocean floor bring a buffet of nutrients to the deep sea. But whales don’t have to be dead to ...

There are fourteen species of baleen whale – including blue, bowhead, right, fin, humpback, minke, and gray whales. Baleen whales are whales that have “baleen plates” instead of teeth.

North Atlantic right whales can tip the scales up to 140,000 ... that the whales aren’t getting enough to eat. They use their baleen plates as sieves to strain huge amounts of copepods, also ...

Delphinidae is the family that includes all oceanic dolphin species. Orcas, also known as killer whales, are the largest dolphins and some of the world’s most powerful predators. All dolphins are ...

A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a small baleen whale, estimated ... and ...

Baleen whales, such as humpbacks and blue whales ... More than 85% of North Atlantic right whales have been caught in fishing gear at least once, with many encountering multiple entanglements ...