Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny morsels of food as they swim. Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms ...

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

A landmark study published in 2023 sequenced the genome of the rarely seen pygmy right whale, the smallest of the living ...

Koala and Curlew are unrelated and possibly pregnant females that have become traveling companions, which is unusual for right whales.

LIFE CYCLE: While there is some uncertainty about this whale's life span, on average it is believed to be at least 50 years. FEEDING: Right whales are baleen whales, meaning they use a comb-like ...

Whales are the biggest creatures on Earth. These animals are found in every ocean, but that doesn't make them fish.

Like bowheads, right whales filter feed through baleen and migrate seasonally to give birth. Whalers considered them the “right” whales to hunt due to their thick blubber, which caused them to ...

Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...

Major risks to baleen whales. Examples of NA right whales killed by (a) ship strikes (b) Entanglement in fishing gear. Image credits: (a) Marine Animal Response Society, collected under federal SARA ...

By the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted the whales to the brink of extinction for their oil and baleen. They called them the "right" whales to hunt because they were slow and floated ...

Many baleen whales, however ... Breed and his team analyzed whale tracking data of southern and North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) collected over four decades.