Like humpback whales, these giants are "baleen" whales, meaning they are toothless. But Bryde's whales have a much pointier mouth and lack that famous hump. A preference for warmer waters means ...

Like humpback whales, these giants are “baleen” whales, meaning they are toothless. But Bryde’s whales have a much pointier mouth and lack that famous hump. A preference for warmer waters means ...

As humpback and southern right whales return to Antarctica at the tail end of their annual migration, east coast whale watchers may think the show ...

Baleen are keratinized structures that are similar to a bony hair mesh. Swimming along, a baleen whale will pull water into its mouth, close the baleen, and squeeze the water through it. Acting as a ...

The Bryde’s whale belongs to baleen species and reaches 50 ft (15 m) in length. They are amazingly elongated. They can also be recognized by dorsal fins, small flippers, and ridges that run from ...

Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will surface.

How Baleen Whales Have Adapted Over the Past 50 Million Years Aug. 22, 2024 — The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped scientists deep dive 'into the blue' to fathom the ...

In addition to studying the world’s only nonmigratory blue whales, marine biologist Asha de Vos seeks to change her compatriots’ attitudes toward the ocean.

Here’s how election-betting markets work and what they can tell us about the outcome of the race. Photo Illustration: Jeremy Shuback The man who is betting more than $30 million on a Donald ...

“They called in 10 people and we sat around a table. They told me I was crazy, and that we couldn’t operate on a whale.” Big Mouth, the Minnesota Zoo’s beluga whale, required a 17-member team that ...

Those were some of the images etched on bowhead whale baleen during a workshop at the Elders & Youth Conference. More than 50 people gathered on the first floor of the Dena’ina Center on Tuesday ...