Scientists have recorded an 'exceptionally rare' wild orca behavior known as 'tongue-nibbling' for the first time. The social ...

A study published in the journal Oceans details the remarkable chance encounter between a group of citizen scientists on a ...

Baleen whales, the largest creatures on Earth, can send extremely low-frequency underwater calls to one another. But little is known about how they actually process these sounds. Now, researchers ...

“Ah, to be Jonah and watch baleen in action from a seat on a whale’s tongue,” he says. Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea.

Other baleen whales, such as the blue whale, identify large swarms of krill and engulf them in one huge gulp. They then contract their throat pleats and use their tongue to push the water out through ...

Humpback whales are well known for providing stunning marine spectacles, from breaching out of the water to singing haunting and melodic songs. These ocean giants are part of a group of baleen ...

The baleen plates, with the help of the tongue, then force the water back into the ocean while the prey remains trapped in the whale’s mouth. The Connection Between Migration and Diet ...

These 19th-century whalers collected the bulk of the carcass, but the orcas would eat the baleen whales’ tongue through the lower jaw, a tacit agreement known as the “law of the tongue ...

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Bowhead, right and humpback whales have differently shaped arytenoids than other baleen whales which allows them to produce sounds that can reach frequencies as high as 6,000 hertz. Though these ...