The world’s largest animals have been hiding something. The bodies of the giant rorqual whales—including the blue, fin and humpback—have been regularly displayed in museums, filmed by ...

But there’s an elephant in the room. Actually, it’s a blue whale. It may be clear why rorqual whales are so large in general, but of these giants, why are blue whales so much larger than all ...

Scientists have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its ... Rorquals are a subgroup of baleen whales -- including blue, fin, minke and humpback whales.

Lunge feeding in rorqual whales (a group that includes blue, humpback and fin whales) is unique among mammals, but details of how it works have remained elusive. Now, scientists from the ...

To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras ... is the key to fueling the extraordinary energy demands of rorqual whales, but we are only beginning to learn how it ...

Gray, blue, big, bigger: baleen whales put the mega ... the researchers were able to demonstrate that the gray whale is also a rorqual, and that it’s closely related to fin and humpback whales ...

In a new study, scientists demonstrate that rorqual whales — whose members include the largest animal on Earth, the blue whale — have come to share very similar feeding mechanisms and jaw ...

The 14 baleen species include the rorqual family – slender, streamlined baleen whales such as fin, sei, humpback and the largest animal that has ever lived, the blue whale. Rorquals swim large ...

The researchers said this unusual nerve structure is present in rorqual whales, a group of filter-feeding baleen whales including the blue whale, fin whale, humpback whale, sei whale, Omura's ...

Ralph Pace (USA) emphasises scale by contrasting a blue whale with a fulmar flying overhead. Ralph encountered this blue whale - one of three - as it surfaced to take a breath during its southerly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To catch a meal, humpback whales dive at high speeds with mouths open to engulf large ...