From their massive heads to their unique social behaviors, these gentle giants are perfectly built for life in the Arctic. The bowhead whale is a baleen whale, known for its massive head that ...

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

The team studied 144 days of diving records of 12 bowhead whales tagged in Disko Bay, West Greenland. Because whale diving behavior can be seen as a "chaotic, self-sustained oscillation" that ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

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

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.

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

This adventure film features Scott McVay an authority on whales and filmmaker Bill Mason The objective was to film the bowhead a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge ...

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 ...