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

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

a common trait among baleen whales. The average humpback whale’s four-chambered heart weighs around 430 pounds. Humpbacks also have huge, mottled white flippers with rough edges that are up to ...

While much less whimsical, the real-life encounter of McSorley and Cottriel carries the same message: the ocean and its inhabitants are full ... humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a member of ...

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

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 ...

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.

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...