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 ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

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

Expedition Killer Whale" reveals an hour-long lesson where adult orca teach calves how to hunt seals off Antarctica.

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Certain animals, though rare, have the size and anatomical abilities to swallow humans whole. Reticulated pythons, for ...

Researchers collected DNA samples from the distinctive bite wounds on the shark’s body that washed ashore near Portland, ...

Orcas in the Puget Sound. Experts say there’s one distinct thing people should know about these pods. They’re killer Biggs, ...

Ackerman refers to local killer whale pods in two distinct groups: the ones he calls “meat eaters” and those that hunt ...