Very little is known about the Omura's whale species. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The species found include a blue whale, a sperm whale and an Omura's whale. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Looking at the skull and spine bones, the team saw that some of the bones remain unfused, suggesting that this was a subadult ...

An identified ancient whale from New Zealand is giving paleontologists a clearer view of the early history of baleen whales.

Bowhead whales have the greatest life span of any mammal on Earth. They can reach over 200 years in age thanks in part to ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.

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 ...

People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale. However, almost all of the largest ...

Not every scientific discovery begins with a dramatic excavation. Sometimes the most important part comes later, after the ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...