21 November 2024
In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing researchers to reconsider how these mammals respond to predators – and humans
18 September 2024
An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale species is helping researchers track the elusive whale behind a perplexing sound in the Pacific
1 November 2022
Combining data on pollution concentrations and whale feeding habits has revealed that filter-feeding whales could be ingesting huge levels of microplastics
7 March 2022
A 1.4-million-year-old fossil relative of killer whales had teeth that suggest it ate small fish rather than large marine mammals
3 November 2021
Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for marine ecosystems
24 February 2021
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are much better at fighting cancer than we are, and a DNA analysis brings us closer to understanding why cetaceans can do this
9 July 2020
A fossil of an ancient giant tusked dolphin lacks the extra vertebrae and short pectoral bones that make fast swimmers of dolphins and baleen whales, which later independently evolved these traits
1 May 2019
It was thought baleen whales suddenly evolved to be massive 2.5 million years ago, but new evidence suggests the change was more gradual and much earlier
29 November 2018
A 33-million-year-old-fossil suggests some whales evolved baleens for filter feeding only after losing their teeth, so they must have sucked food from the water
11 July 2017
Humpbacks have been spotted feeding on baby salmon bred for release into the wild to restock fisheries for the first time, competing with fishermen
