A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being ...

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

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

There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...

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 ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker in southern Chile, before spitting him out unharmed, an amazing escape that was ...

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

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.

A humpback whale surfaces while lunge feeding on menhaden, a small fish, in the Atlantic.Credit: Dave Sanders/The New York Times Pirotta said baleen whales such as humpbacks open their jaws very ...