A new study by Trevor Branch at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences shows that some species of baleen whales ...

The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...

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

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 ...

While studying baleen whales, Branch noticed a unique character trait about the flight group, and it all had to do with the sounds they made. Whales produce a hauntingly beautiful song to communicate ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different ... you can have animals that produce some of the loudest sounds in nature, and yet their predators can’t hear them, ...

Most baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti), such as blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus), communicate in the 15 to 25 hertz range—low, rumbling sounds that can ...

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...