Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are apex predators known to prey on bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), particularly juveniles and calves. These killer whale attacks typically occur in Arctic and ...

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

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Bowhead whales are among the largest and longest-living ... deepest in the afternoon to track the daily movement of their prey towards the surface, a phenomenon known as the "diel vertical migration".

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...