Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

Whales with baleen, a filter-feeding system, eat smaller prey like krill, zooplankton and small fish by swallowing large gulps of water and straining it through the baleen plates. Baleen whales ...

Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill in a day. Most baleen whales use a strategy called lunge feeding ...

Baleen whales mainly feed on krill, plankton, and small fish. They feed by taking in great mouthfuls of water which is filtered through the baleen plates which catch the krill or fish which the ...

Other baleen whales, such as the blue whale, identify large swarms of krill and engulf them in one huge gulp. They then contract their throat pleats and use their tongue to push the water out through ...

Blue whales do not eat anything larger than krill. To understand how this works, we need to look at how a blue whale eats its food. Blue whales are a species of baleen whale. Baleen whales don’t ...

fringed curtains of keratin—baleen—used to seine krill. The largest member of the genus and the biggest creature ever to live, the blue whale gets that way from its ability to process eight ...

The results showed that the isotope ratios in the baleen of pygmy right whales closely match those of copepods and krill species from regions rich in zooplankton off Australia. In contrast ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

Last year, passengers on board a cruise ship near Antarctica were treated to an extremely rare and spectacular sight: a giant congregation of baleen whales feeding on a gargantuan volume of krill ...