The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

The research team applied new techniques for mapping networks in the excised brains of dead, stranded cetaceans to examine and compare the auditory pathways in echolocating dolphins and a ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth, ... This newly published data is the first comparison of brain networks in dolphins and baleen whales and opens new understanding of how ... Size is also a major ...

Fordyce and his former student, Dr Cheng-Hsiu Tsai, named the whale. In Māori, it means "a baleen-origin whale from the Waitaki region". The researchers were not able to determine how the whale died.

Baleen whale fossil featuring Dr Erich Fitzgerald and Dr James Rule. AddedDec 21st, 2023 All Melbourne-bound lanes of the Princes Freeway at Werribee have been closed today due to multiple crashes ...

Whale song is documented in baleen whales, such as humpbacks, fin whales, blue whales, and bowhead whales. How they produce these noises is a mystery because they do not have vocal chords.

Blue whale, scientifically called Balaenoptera musculus, is one of three baleen whales reported from Pakistani waters. The other two whales are the Bryde's whale and the Arabian humpback whale.

Trending News: A colossal 60-foot whale shark, nearly the size of a city bus, has been spotted off the Pacific coast, stunning marine biologists. This gentle giant, ...

Humpback whales are known for being calm and non-aggressive during encounters with humans. In fact, these whales rarely attack humans unprovoked, and any damage they inflict upon vessels may simply be ...