The DOC is reminding people of the need for permits for possession of protected marine mammal parts after a buyer purchased ...

Both toothed and baleen (filter-feeding) whales are among the largest animals ever to exist. Blue whales, which measure up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and can weigh over 150 tons, are the largest ...

Ice coats baleen in the mouth of a Fin whale that came to rest on the frozen mudflats of Cook Inlet near Anchorage. Photographed on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN) ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen ...

By Bobby Bascomb Each year, during summer and fall, large groups of baleen whales gather off the coast of California, U.S., to feast on krill and fish before heading south to breeding areas in the ...

The importance of whale feces has been ... The photosynthesis that this allows could draw more than 18,000 tons ... This, the authors claim, means “baleen whales provide the largest long ...

The baleen whale baritones, on-the-other-hand, are often solitary creatures that stay in deep water, only coming together to mate. These whales flee when orcas attack.

Like baleen whales today, it used these plates to eat its prey through a process known as filter feeding. "There is absolutely no evolutionary link between hupehsuchians and whales!" ...

W hen it's time to eat, humpback whales head toward the ends of the earth. Their mission: feast until they are fat and happy. They must build up their energy reserves, packing on nearly a ton of ...

Dec. 23—It's now been more than a month since a 47-foot fin whale washed up on the Anchorage coastal flats, near the mouth of Fish Creek. In those first days after the whale's Nov. 16 appearance ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be ...