Scientists have discovered a sensory organ in rorqual whales that coordinates its ... gulp in order to sustain its average 50-ton body mass. Goldbogen, who conducted both studies while a PhD ...

The fossils, unearthed about three years ago during a road-widening project in Chile’s Atacama Desert, probably record a series of mass strandings ... all from the rorqual super-family that ...

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 have solved the ...

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 ...

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 ...