Odontocetes, or whales with teeth, use echolocation to hunt their food with sound rather than sight. They eat squid, octopus, ...

What Do Bowhead Whales Eat? The bowhead whale is a filter feeder, relying on its baleen plates to strain tiny organisms like krill, copepods and other zooplankton from the water.

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: ...

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

The bowhead whale is a baleen whale, known for its massive head that makes up about one-third of its body length. Bowhead whales are large, reaching up to 60 feet (18.3 meters) in length and ...