Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...

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 ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan. 31 in Marine Mammal Science.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have ... The “fight” club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have ... The "fight" club includes right, bowhead, gray and humpback whales. The research was published Jan.

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.