Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure ... tells Popular Science. “Baleen whales are ‘capital breeders,’ feeding for part of the year in high-latitude productive areas, such as Alaska ...

More information: John Ryan et al, Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific, PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone ...

Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the “right” whale to kill on a hunt. These leviathans had enormous value for their plentiful oil and baleen, which were used for ...

A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders are particularly vulnerable when they have calves. Baleen whales communicate with each other across the expanse of the ...

“Analyzing baleen whale songs has revealed year-to-year variations that reflect changes in the availability of the species they forage on,” John Ryan, an oceanographer at the Monterey Bay ...