The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to ...
streamlined baleen whales such as fin, sei, humpback and the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale. Rorquals ...
These things can tell us about the evolutionary history of whales. 'For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth.
Scientists have worked out how some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs. Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that ...
These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...