Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself.

Whale-watching tour operators encountered the mass gathering of cetaceans while looking for migrating gray whales ...

This isn't Vancouver-specific so much as regional; there was a breed of dog unique to the area. The Salish Woolly dog was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

After 70-mile-per-hour winds partially destroyed Laguna's iconic whaling wall mural last month, Laguna Beach artist and ocean ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...