The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

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 the ...

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

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

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

A three metre dead whale, believed to be a pygmy sperm whale, has washed up on a popular western suburbs beach.

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

A whale shark has left tropical waters to make a rare appearance off a town on the NSW South Coast a few hours’ drive from ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining ...

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