A North Atlantic right whale mother and newborn calf pair has shown up in an unusual location for January, off the coast of ...

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale species that inhabits waters off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. During the summer, these whales migrate north to ...

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 ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted the whales to the brink of extinction for their oil and baleen. They called them the "right" whales to hunt because they were slow and floated ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

The sounds generated during this process are often imperceptible to baleen whales like humpbacks and right whales, Redfern said. The greatest risk of acoustic impact on whales comes during the ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach ... reproduce extremely slowly and can go many years between births. Baleen whales’ life history – particularly the age when females start ...

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 said ...