A humpback whale and its offspring (Image by Adobe Stock) ...

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

The animal kingdom harbors giants capable of swallowing a human whole, showcasing nature's power. Creatures like sperm whales ...

An update on how New England’s North Atlantic right whale and the Arctic’s beluga whale populations are faring. Plus, ...

The sperm whale has the largest head of any animal, with heads reaching up to 20 feet long. These sharks have a huge head, which they use to filter feed. Whale sharks also have large heads that are ...

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 ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

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 were ...