Secrets of a tiny Australian whale

Out of the Blue

Pygmy Right Whales are Australia's smallest baleen whale, the group that includes the well-known Humpbacks and Southern Right Whales. But unlike their famous cousins, they've been seen so few times that essentially nothing is known about them. So how do you study a whale that is as mysterious as a unicorn? Adelaide Dedden at the University of New South Wales has studied baleen from stranded right whales to reveal, for the first time, some of the secrets of these little whales.Image: Pygmy Right Whale by Henry Cordell.