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 ...

Both Whales are two of the largest cetaceans in the world. Despite their apparent physical resemblance, these two whale species have notable distinctions in various aspects such as size, diet, habitat ...

Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking animals. These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ever existed and are found all over the world. Despite their size ...

The Smithsonian's first life-size museum whale, ... by comparison, looked about the size of a ... The nourishing krill are conveniently caught by the baleen netting. For centuries, whales were ...

Baleen whales swallow the krill whole. Without teeth to chew, a blue whale could not consume larger animals. Blue whales may be giant animals, but they don’t have giant throats.

During this time, about 35% of the atmosphere is composed of oxygen. For comparison, our atmosphere today contains ... One is that the average size of a dinosaur at the end of the ... It's how they ...

Some baleen whales, or whales that have plates in their mouths to help sieve out plankton, sing low-frequency songs to not only attract potential mates but also keep them safe from killer whale ...

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 ...

People often think of all whales as giants of the sea when in fact they vary in size dramatically, from the 30-metre blue whale to the two-metre dwarf sperm whale.However, almost all of the largest ...

A landmark study published in 2023 sequenced the genome of the rarely seen pygmy right whale, the smallest of the living baleen whales which makes it an interesting comparison with the large rorquals.