The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...

At 98 feet long and 200 tons, blue whales are by far the largest animals on Earth. To get that massive, blue whales need to eat millions of calories. A day. They feed exclusively through baleen filter ...

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 56, No. 6 (December 2016), pp. 1271-1284 (14 pages) The origin of baleen and filter feeding in mysticete cetaceans occurred sometime between approximately 34 ...

MELBOURNE, Nov. 30 (UPI) --Baleen whales are named for the long hair-like strands that hang from their mouth and filter food from the ocean. But baleen whales didn't always filter their food; their ...

Researchers used noninvasive suction tags to observe the behavior of Antarctic minke whales as they fed on krill in the waters off the West Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo by David Cade, Hopkins Marine ...

The origin of filter feeding in baleen whales -- the largest animal known to have ever existed -- is now better understood, thanks to research on 'Alfred' the 25- million-year-old fossilized whale ...

Many whales filter food from water using racks of baleen plates in their mouths, but no one had ever investigated how baleen behaves in real life. According to an expert, baleen was viewed as a static ...

Baleen plates are bristly, flexible comb-like structures inside the mouths of toothless whales that filter out the food the whales gulp. They have now been found to hold a chemical record of the ...

Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote ...

Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels, a new study of baleen whales suggests. When these whales feed, ...

When rorqual whales feed, they lunge through the water with mouths open wide, taking in vast patches of their tiny prey suspended in a volume of water as big as their massive bodies in one giant gulp.

Whales - the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth - are ingesting microplastics on a colossal scale. Researchers at Stanford University in California modelled how many pieces of plastic ...