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

On Monday, a small group of scientists and cultural experts gathered around the near-perfectly preserved male spade-toothed whale, hoping to decode decades of mystery surrounding this elusive species.

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.

They also discovered the whale’s upper jaw contained small, vestigial teeth ... this beautiful animal,” van Helden said. Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered ...

Belugas are small whales, measuring up to 15 feet long with a maximum weight of 3,000 pounds. They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, ...

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Albinism is a rare ... time to save some of the provisions and regroup in three small whaling boats before their ship succumbed to the waves.

The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...

Humpback and Bryde's whales also actively hunt for small schooling fish such as herring and anchovies ... For scientists, the only way to work out what a toothed whale eats is to either observe it ...

Department of Conservation (DOC) official Gabe Davies said in a statement that spade-toothed ... of stranded whales off New Zealand's North Island in 2010 and 2017 added to the small collection.

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...

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 ...