A fin whale skull helped researchers study the acoustical properties of whale skulls. Baleen whales, the largest creatures on Earth, can send extremely low-frequency underwater calls to one another.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot. The blue whale, the largest ...

Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels, a new study of baleen whales suggests. When these whales feed, ...

Blue whales are enormous, magnificent creatures. The largest mammals known to have existed, they can grow to be more than 100 feet in length and weigh more than 100 tons, and they don’t even have ...

A restoration of Mammalodon by Brian Choo (published in Fitzgerald, 2009). In the introduction to his 1883 lecture on whales, the English anatomist William Henry Flower said; Few natural groups ...

Whale baleen is one of the most remarkable anatomical traits Northern Arizona University Endocrinologist Kathleen Hunt has ever worked with. “The more I look at it, the more fascinated I get,” she ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Some recently discovered fossils are helping College of Charleston research associate and adjunct instructor Robert Boessenecker answer questions surrounding the evolution of ...

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In 1850, the Honolulu Friend published an unusual editorial from an unexpected source. Whalers who scoured the seas for the giant aquatic mammals knew well that large whales were beginning to become ...

For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most ...

Most people have never had the opportunity to see some of the largest marine mammals on the planet in person. Baleen whales, especially those of the blue whale and humpback whale species, are perhaps ...

CT scans of a 25 million year-old fossil skull show the Aetiocetus weltoni had both teeth and baleen, unlike modern whales. A strange phenomenon happens with modern blue whales, humpback whales and ...