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

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of ...

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.

Pelagos and FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology- Hellas), the project’s second scientific partner, collected data on sperm whale sightings and movements to have a better understanding of ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

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

"Thankfully the BDMLR team were not only able to free the whale from the salmon farm, but they were also able to free it of the other ropes it had been carrying." Martin Boon, of BDMLR, told BBC ...

Read more about sperm whales: http://j.mp/sOSais Watch underwater footage of the mammal and hear its strange clicking sounds that are crucial to their survival What ...