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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Fossil hints that orcas don’t have a long history of killing whales
7 March 2022
A 1.4-million-year-old fossil relative of killer whales had teeth that suggest it ate small fish rather than large marine mammals
Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought
3 November 2021
Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for marine ecosystems
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
Whales and dolphins can resist cancer and their DNA reveals why
24 February 2021
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are much better at fighting cancer than we are, and a DNA analysis brings us closer to understanding why cetaceans can do this
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
Dolphins and whales separately evolved the same speedy swimming bones
9 July 2020
A fossil of an ancient giant tusked dolphin lacks the extra vertebrae and short pectoral bones that make fast swimmers of dolphins and baleen whales, which later independently evolved these traits
Huge whales may have evolved millions of years earlier than we thought
1 May 2019
It was thought baleen whales suddenly evolved to be massive 2.5 million years ago, but new evidence suggests the change was more gradual and much earlier
Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean
29 November 2018
A 33-million-year-old-fossil suggests some whales evolved baleens for filter feeding only after losing their teeth, so they must have sucked food from the water
Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries
11 July 2017
Humpbacks have been spotted feeding on baby salmon bred for release into the wild to restock fisheries for the first time, competing with fishermen
