baleen whales don’t have teeth or vocal cords. Instead, in their voice boxes, they have a U-shaped tissue that allows them to breathe in massive amounts of air and a large “cushion” of fat ...

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.

Certain skeletal features of archaic whales, particularly their large, triangular cheek teeth, strongly resembled those of mesonychids, a group of hoofed Eocene carnivores. (The massive ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, construction workers have unearthed thousands of marine fossils, echoing Palos Verdes ...

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 ...

Fortunately, the ocean offers a range of dining options. All whales are divided into two suborders: Odontoceti (those that have teeth) and Mysticeti (which have baleen plates instead). A whale's diet ...

and DOC said local Maori communities would take part in deciding the whale's fate. The species was first described in 1874 after a lower jaw and two teeth were collected from New Zealand's Chatham ...

The scientific name for killer whales is Orcinus orca, which was given in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, who ...

A collection of the form’s most striking onscreen dentition, from horrifically accurate to freakishly surreal.

Hippos, killer whales and sperm whales are targeted for their teeth, while narwhals and walruses are hunted for their tusks. An investigation in 2022 by conservation charity Born Free found 621 ...

Cape Town beachgoers have been warned to stay away from whales and dolphins that wash ashore or frolic within 300m of the ...

Whales offered an unusual opportunity to try to piece together the reasons for menopause. Several closely related species of toothed whales — a group that includes cetaceans with teeth as opposed to ...