“The snout of Hupehsuchus is highly convergent with modern baleen whales,” the study concludes. Yet does that mean that whales are somehow descended from the noble Hupehsuchus? Not exactly. “There is ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...

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Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote ...

Pygmy right whales (Caperea marginata) are the smallest, ‘most enigmatic’, and probably least studied of all baleen whales. Baleen act like sieves in the mouth of baleen whales, which allow seawater ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Now scientists have finally ...

Pygmy right whales swim in the same waters all year round – a behaviour rarely seen in baleen whales, which typically migrate thousands of kilometres to look for food and mates. The finding offers a ...

Baleen whales are incredible at filter feeding; they became the largest animals on the planet by eating huge amounts of tiny food. Now, a local scientist is trying to find out if the same system that ...