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

The NYS DEC shared that the whale received the name Accordion after researchers observed scarring on her back that was likely ...

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was ...

Infrasonic sounds are sound waves with frequencies lower than 20 Hz, which is below the range of human hearing.

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

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 ...

These tend to be the whale species that flee in the face of attack. These deep singers in the “flight” club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde’s and minke whales. Meanwhile, their higher ...