Baleen whales have a special structure in their mouth that enables them to filter feed. Instead of teeth, they have baleen plates that hang down from their upper jaw. These are made from keratin – the ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. What do blue whales ...

Both toothed and baleen (filter-feeding) whales are among the largest animals ever to exist. Blue whales, which measure up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and can weigh over 150 tons, are the largest ...

Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave their Antarctic feeding grounds in January every year and spend three ...

It’s called baleen – pronounced buh-LEEN – and Demboski explained that they are essentially teeth that help the whale eat. Read the full story on Denverite You care.

The DOC is reminding people of the need for permits for possession of protected marine mammal parts after a buyer purchased ...

But whale species also produce loud underwater songs. What stops killer whales from homing in on their calls and attacking them? New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen ...

Because baleen whales — of which there are 16 species, including Humpback, Blue and Fin whales — are too large to study in captivity, biologists have had to infer their hearing ability from ...

Scientists have long struggled to study how whales produce sound. A new paper in the journal Nature paints the most complete picture yet of how baleen whales produce their iconic, haunting calls.

Because baleen whales — of which there are 16 species, including Humpback, Blue and Fin whales — are too large to study in captivity, biologists have had to infer their hearing ability from ...

New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they’re completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below ...

Other baleen species, including gray whales and northern and southern right whales, have also been observed interacting with seaweed. After seeing videos of kelping and reading a 2012 study on the ...