Bowhead whales also boast the longest baleen plates of any whale species, which can grow up to 13 feet (4 meters) and are used to filter tiny organisms from the water. Bowhead whales are the ...

The bowhead whale skeleton on display was collected off the coast of Greenland 160 years ago ... It is important that these specimens are cleaned and looked after because dust is hydroscopic, meaning ...

Ocean Quahog is the land animal who has a lifespan of more than 400 years and live in the group habitat. Saltwater Crocodiles ...

While this isn't the first time a human has ended up in a humpback whale's mouth, it's not an everyday occurrence. "The whale was just as surprised as the kayaker.” ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

A hunter listens to the water for songs of nearby whales. “Whaling is community. It takes a village to pull up a whale,” says whaling captain Ned Arey. But this bowhead proved impossible to ...

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

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 ...