The mouth then closes around the engulfed water mass as the inflated throat pouch ... key to fueling the extraordinary energy demands of rorqual whales, but we are only beginning to learn how ...

To eat, rorqual whales open their mouths and lunge while their tongues invert and their mouths fill like giant water balloons full of floating prey. The whales' nerves are stretchy so they can ...

The skeleton of a rorqual whale lies in the sand along the shoreline of northern Namibia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!