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 ...

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

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

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

FEEDING: Right whales are baleen whales, meaning they use a comb-like strainer made of hundreds of long, narrow baleen plates attached to their upper jaws to filter large amounts of plankton. However, ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well ... extremely slowly and can go many years between births. Baleen whales’ life history – particularly the age when females start breeding ...

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 ...

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

As dozens of North Atlantic right whales continue to group near Jeffreys Ledge, officials have urged fishermen to remove some ...

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.

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 ...