When paddleboarding in the ocean, you never know what kind of animals you’ll encounter. But we’re guessing that getting a ...

A humpback whale breaches off the coast of California. (Photo by Matthew Savoca via Courthouse News) (CN) — Baleen whales, including iconic species such as the blue whale and humpback whale, measure ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Some recently discovered fossils are helping College of Charleston research associate and adjunct instructor Robert Boessenecker answer questions surrounding the evolution of ...

Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels, a new study of baleen whales suggests. When these whales feed, ...

For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 56, No. 6 (December 2016), pp. 1271-1284 (14 pages) The origin of baleen and filter feeding in mysticete cetaceans occurred sometime between approximately 34 ...

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