Some sources estimate it requires 2,200 pounds of food to fill the blue whale’s stomach. The whales maximize foraging ...

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds ... In one, called “bubble-net feeding,” one whale corrals fish and pushes them toward the surface by blowing bubbles.

It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.

A single blue whale gulps down up to 10 million pieces ... shrimp-like creatures called krill as well as tiny fish, like sardines and anchovies, from the water. Each mouthful can contain up ...

blue whales use bristly baleen plates to sift, sieve or trap krill, plankton and small fish from ocean waters. Matthew Savoca at Stanford University in California and his colleagues have ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and local entrepreneurs are collaborating on a $350,000 restoration of the Seymour Center’s blue ...

The blue whale has long been considered the largest ... It could have fed on fish and crustaceans, or may have pioneered filter-feeding strategies that later baleen whales used to scoff down ...

Some killer whales only eat fish, while others prey on marine mammals ... attacks to hunt the largest animal on the planet, a blue whale. Sponsor Message Off California's coast, even great ...

"The blue whale would feed all the orcas and feed other animals under the water too, like sharks and fish, and also birds get the scraps." “We witnessed an incredible and rare event yesterday as ...