The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

Dolphins Can 'See' Underwater By Using 'Echolocation' Technique, Scientists Find A team of researchers has managed to delve ...

Scientists mapped dolphin and whale brains to uncover how echolocation works, revealing they may use sound more like touch ...

Southern right whales are large migratory baleen whales that can be spotted off the Australian coastline in winter as they travel north. The whales come close to shore, which made them ideal, or ...

Filter feeding is a technique that needs to be carefully mastered. “It’s an incredibly energy-efficient mechanism, but they have to get it right,” says Richard. “Like any hunter, you want to be ...

Baleen whales are often more solitary, as compared to orcas, and include species like humpbacks, blue whales, and gray whales. As solitary creatures, they are easier targets for a pod of killer whales ...

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 ...

North Atlantic right whales Curlew and Koala have been documented traveling together since at least Nov. 24 while swimming off of South Carolina. The pair was last spotted on Sunday off of Stuart.

They are baleen whales and filter feeders that feed on zooplankton. They have been slowly swimming south along the Eastern Seaboard since first being spotted off South Carolina on Nov. 24, Albert ...

These whales can weigh up to 140,000 pounds and get up to 52 feet in length. Their calves even weigh a ton. Right whales got their name from whalers decades ago who claimed they were the "right ...

Per the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, North Atlantic right whales are one of the three species of large baleen whales. They are described as having stocky black bodies with no ...