Killer whale populations are invading the Arctic, causing significant disruptions to an ecosystem already deeply affected by climate change. A team of McGill researchers has …

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have uncovered the secrets locked in the jawlines of humpback and southern right whales. Baleen plates — the signature bristle-like apparatus …

By chemically analyzing sequential samples from the baleen of dead whales, it is possible to read not only the history of the diet, but also …

Researchers have identified 187 individual North Atlantic right whales – about 40 percent of the catalogued population – in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence during …

From 1910 to 1970, humans killed an estimated 1.5 million baleen whales in the frigid water encircling Antarctica. They were hunted for their blubber, baleen …

DNA analysis shows hunters didn’t kill protected species  Researchers investigating the slaughter of a whale off the coast of Iceland have confirmed it was a …