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.