Fin whales eat small schooling fish like herring, as well as krill, and squids. They roll onto their sides and lunge at swarms of tiny sea creatures, gulping them down, ...

Fin whales eat both small fish and krill and ingest an estimated three to 10 million pieces of plastic daily. “Consumption rates are likely even higher for whales foraging in more polluted ...

Fin whales are on average 80-to-85-feet long, but can reach 90 feet. ... “They only eat two to three species of krill because they are very picky,” West said.

Fin whales, who eat both krill and fish, ingest between 3 million and 10 million pieces. Little is known about what this mass consumption of plastic may do to the megafauna, ...

Smaller fin whales are ingesting roughly 6 million pieces of the confetti-like litter a day as they feed. And humpback whales that primarily eat fish are eating about 200,000 pieces a day, the ...

Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, smaller only than blue whales. Fast swimmers that can eat two tons of food a day, they grow up to 85 feet long, weigh 40 to 80 tons and live for 80 ...

Highlighting the growing problem of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, whales swimming off the California coast are ingesting millions of tiny pieces of plastic every day, a new study led ...

Fin whales, meanwhile, eat both krill and fish and are ingesting an estimated three to 10 million microplastic pieces a day. That the plastics are being consumed with the prey is a concern for the ...

When a whale washes ashore, it’s often in a sorry state — bloated, decomposing, stinking to high heavens. But the 52-foot fin whale that stranded itself on San Diego’s popular Mission Beach ...