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 ...

The descendants of Dorudon went on to evolve into modern whales. About 34 million years ago, a group of whales began to develop a new way of eating. They had flatter skulls and feeding filters in ...

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.