Bottlenose dolphins can hear each other under the water up to eight miles. Baleen whales typically have two blowholes. Toothed whales have one blowhole. There are only 15 baleen whale species and they ...

Its nostrils had begun migrating upward on the skull—the first step toward the blowhole position ... Today’s whales—comprising approximately 90 species across two major groups, the toothed whales ...

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.

Because of the condition of the remains, the whale’s species wasn’t immediately known, though it may have been “a larger baleen whale of some type,” Milstein said. He said it is unlikely ...

Hildering said Bryde’s whales, a member of the baleen whale family, which includes blue whales and humpback whales, have rostral ridges and are known for having three parallel ridges on their ...

But until now, another benefit that whales provided to ecosystems had not been quantified – that of urine. A recent study published in Nature Communications indicates that baleen whales’ urine ...

Bryde’s whales are baleen whales that feed primarily on plankton and small schooling fish. They are rarely seen in waters north of a 35-degree latitude — roughly the same latitude as Los ...

Experts brought in to examine the body confirmed it as a young Bryde's whale, a baleen whale that uses filter feeding, similar to humpbacks, generally found in tropical to temperate waters, though ...

Bryde’s whales (pronounced BROO-dus) are a type of baleen whale, feeding primarily on plankton and small schooling fish. They span the globe but are rarely seen in waters north of latitude 35 ...