Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Specifically, the marine mammals can sing at extremely deep frequencies that are “completely undetectable” to orcas, according to a study published on Jan. 31 in the journal Marine Mammal Science. “It ...

A stunning video from Chile shows a humpback whale briefly scooping a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed.

Tasmania. Every year, around 2000 marine mammals die in mass strandings worldwide. But this is not always for natural reasons ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they ...

Watch this clip of a kayaker getting swallowed by a humpback and spat out and then read about how it could happen.

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

A young Venezuelan packrafter briefly became a modern-day Jonah when a humpback whale gulped him up in its jaws and closed ...

Adrián began to think about how he might survive inside the humpback whale, ‘like Pinocchio’, when the whale spat him out, he ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...