From their massive heads to their unique social behaviors, these gentle giants are perfectly built for life in the Arctic. The bowhead whale is a baleen whale, known for its massive head that ...

“And this is where acoustic crypsis (a type of enigmatic behavior for avoiding predators ... attacked and include humpback, grey and bowhead whales — sing at higher frequencies, often over ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

The team studied 144 days of diving records of 12 bowhead whales tagged in Disko Bay, West Greenland. Because whale diving behavior can be seen as a "chaotic, self-sustained oscillation" that ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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: ...