They’re called whale sharks for two reasons: They’re as large as many whales and they don’t feed like most sharks, but ...

Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave their Antarctic feeding grounds in January every year and spend three ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, use their baleen to feed on some of the ocean’s smallest animals. This feeding-in-action drone footage was captured by Oregon State University.

A dead whale was found a few meters from the shore in Vicente López, on the northern outskirts of the Autonomous City of ...

Baleen whales eat (and poop) a lot more than we realized. In a single day, a blue whale can gulp down the caloric equivalent of 30,000 Big Macs.

But whale species also produce loud underwater songs. What stops killer whales from homing in on their calls and attacking them?. New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen ...

Scientists made an incredible discovery last year: a small, "unique" group of baleen whales in the Gulf of Mexico that make up an entirely new species. The whales — up to 60,000 pounds each ...

Baleen whales — which capture krill, fish, zooplankton and squid by filtering seawater through their special structures in their mouths — may consume up to three times more prey than ...

Understanding how baleen whales track down their prey could help scientists predict where the whales will go to feed—and better manage human activities in those areas that might harm the whales.

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 ...