Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing. Some baleen whales, or whales that have plates in their mouths to help ...

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders are ...

Whale song is more than a series of calls drifting through the ocean. In some baleen whales, males produce repeated and ...