He had to steady his hands to capture this close-up composition as the boat rocked in the swell. Bryde's whales have up to 370 pairs of grey-coloured plates of baleen growing inside their upper jaws.
Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that enables them to sing underwater. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, has also revealed why the noise we ...
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 ...
Lena Layland, 18, etches a piece of baleen during a workshop at the Elders & Youth Conference in the Dena'ina Center on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN) Fish hanging in a smokehouse ...