Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the “right” whale to kill on a hunt. These leviathans had enormous value for their plentiful oil and baleen, which were used for ...

New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years—almost twice as long ...

All of this matters for more than just a single species of whale. North Atlantic right whales and other baleen whales are ecosystem engineers, feeding in deep water and then releasing nutrients ...

Whales are extraordinary creatures – not only are some the largest animals to have ever inhabited the planet, but others are also exceptionally long-lived. Now, new research has discovered that right ...

Hunt gleaned a lot about whale reproduction studying baleen from two female North Atlantic right whales, Stumpy and Staccato, that scientists had been observing off New England since the 1970s.

The pygmy right whale is an enigma in the whale world. Not only is it the smallest of the characteristically large filter-feeding baleen whales, but it's also rarely sighted and seldom studied ...

Baleen whales have a special structure in their mouth that enables them to filter feed. Instead of teeth, they have baleen plates that hang down from their upper jaw. These are made from keratin – the ...

Right whales and bowhead whales take the former approach, while blue, ... Baleen whales feed an estimated 80 to 150 days out of the year, so using these daily intake estimates, ...

Modern baleen whales include many of the world’s largest cetaceans, such as blue, ... “But right now, it anchors the modern baleen whale lineage to at least 27.5 million years. ...

Growing to only 6.5 metres long, it is the smallest baleen whale species, says Felix Marx at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Pygmy right whales are also anatomically distinct, with ...

A baby right whale swims with its mother in Cape Cod Bay in 2019. (Amy James/Center for Coastal Studies/NOAA via AP) By the time researchers found the dead whale on a Martha’s Vineyard beach ...

Having shown that it’s possible to identify whale species from baleen, Solazzo says, “Now we have a new tool to study those collections.” Lucia RM Martino, NMNH Rocky, flat, and all but free ...