Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information ... a study co-author and conservation biologist at the University of Vermont, tells Popular Science. “Baleen whales are ...

In addition, baleen whales present a wide range of feeding mechanisms related to a ... balaenopterids range from the small common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata), reaching approximately ...

All whales are divided into two suborders: Odontoceti (those that have teeth) and Mysticeti (which have baleen plates instead). A whale's diet depends on its suborder ... Uffelen/Shutterstock.com ...

Indeed, scientists have determined that the slaughter of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean caused a long-term ... a phenomenon referred to as the “whale conveyor belt,” as they migrate between ...

A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders are particularly vulnerable when they have calves. Baleen whales communicate with each other across the expanse of the ...

These behaviors also have implications for feeding and mating ... Branch, Most "flight" baleen whale species are acoustically cryptic to killer whales, unlike "fight" species, Marine Mammal ...

Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer ... Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the “right” whale to kill on a hunt. These leviathans had enormous ...

Changes in the environment make baleen whales vulnerable ... coincided with changes in climate cycles, implying that whale feeding patterns change with climate-driven resource availability ...

For several years now, Coombs has been studying whale skull peculiarities—such as the structure ... and the odontocetes—went their separate ways. The baleen whales began developing the long keratin ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

A juvenile humpback whale was found dead on a beach in South ... animals migrating 5,000 miles between high-latitude summer feeding grounds and winter mating and calving areas in tropical waters ...