World's smallest baleen whale is the last of its kind
15 July 2023
Pygmy right whales are evolutionarily distinct and may be part of a whale family long thought to be extinct
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Found 8 results for baleen whale
Why do no other aquatic animals grow to a huge size like whales do?
10 May 2023
There could be several physiological reasons why whales are so big, say our readers, but let’s not forget other ocean giants that grow larger than most whales
Restoring just nine groups of animals could help combat global warming
27 March 2023
Protecting or expanding the populations of nine key groups of animals, including wolves and whales, would remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere
Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator
29 December 2022
New fossil discoveries show predatory marine reptiles from 200 million years ago may have been bigger than today’s blue whales – and that they evolved astonishingly rapidly
Two groups of whales evolved massive heads for different reasons
30 July 2021
Bowhead and right whales are among the biggest animals alive today, but a new look at how they evolved suggests that the two groups ballooned in size independently of each other, and probably for different reasons
A new species of baleen whale has been found in the Gulf of Mexico
28 January 2021
Baleen whales include the largest animals ever to exist, but despite their size, they remain mysterious – and a new species has just been found near the US south coast
Hunting facts in the classic tale Moby-Dick makes for a strange voyage
16 October 2019
New book Ahab's Rolling Sea highlights our destructiveness as it teases fact from fiction in Moby-Dick, the obsessive hunt for a great white whale
Cambridge’s Museum of Zoology: Bobby the whale and Attenborough
21 June 2018
Bobby the fin whale presides over the reopening of Cambridge University’s zoology museum – with David Attenborough putting the final specimen in place
