There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
Adrián began to think about how he might survive inside the humpback whale, ‘like Pinocchio’, when the whale spat him out, he ...
A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...
Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.
A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...
While this isn't the first time a human has ended up in a humpback whale's mouth, it's not an everyday occurrence. "The whale was just as surprised as the kayaker.” ...
Watch this clip of a kayaker getting swallowed by a humpback and spat out and then read about how it could happen.
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 ...