New research from the University of Washington finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they’re completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

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.

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Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near ...

An orca calf less than 24 hours old has been spotted in a rare sighting of a newborn killer whale in Western Australia. The animals are regularly seen off Bremer Bay in summer, but calves are ...

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In a post-industrial whaling world, flagship and charismatic baleen whale species are indicators of the health of our oceans. However, traditional monitoring methods provide spatially and temporally ...

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