Life restoration of a mother-calf pair of Parietobalaena yamaokai. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

A whale calf stays in its mother's womb for between ... are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth. Baleen ...

Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen ... mature until ten years of age and give birth to a single calf after a yearlong pregnancy, populations grow slowly.

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre ...

Australia's population of Southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to ...

A humpback whale calf peering at the photographer as it plays in the warm protected waters of Moorea. Once the calves are strong enough, they will make the long journey with their mother back to ...

It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...