Bay Area researchers from SETI and UC Davis captured a rare sight: humpback whales blowing bubble rings — like smoke rings — while calmly approaching humans. It’s the first time scientists have ...

Humpback whales may be communicating with humans in a playful way, according to researchers who have been studying the marine ...

Learn about the playful and curious side of humpback whales, as seen when they create bubble rings during friendly ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

Baleen whales are massive and majestic but they’ve just become even more fascinating. Scientists have discovered that these ...

Baleen whales have two methods of feeding – skim feeding and lunge feeding. When they are skim feeding they swim slowly through swarms of fish or plankton with their mouth open to catch ...

Another species of baleen whale, the humpback whale, was seen accidentally swallowing a pelican. But the whale felt the difference in its mouth right away and spat the pelican out, letting the ...

Once at the surface, a lunge-feeding whale will typically close its mouth almost immediately to ... As for the whale’s bristly baleen, these fibers and plates are flexible and resistant to ...

These whales eat their food using a clever system called filter feeding. Baleen whales have a special structure in their mouth that enables them to filter feed. Instead of teeth, they have baleen ...

and like rubbing up against a witch’s broom because that’s kind of what their baleen plates feel like,” she said. The depiction of Dory and Marlin inside the whale’s mouth in the Pixar ...

AP But instead of remaining underwater afterward to filter through its baleen, it surfaced and began opening and closing its mouth. After the whale went back underwater, photographs and videos ...

Baleen whales evolved bristly baleen plates instead ... This involves accelerating forwards with a closed mouth before opening the mouth wide, then filtering the water out through their baleen ...