The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds ... sea birds and even fellow whale species. A whale's diet varies by species. Odontocetes, or whales with teeth, use echolocation to ...

And when we analysed the skin of the humpback whales, we saw a clear shift to a fish-dominated diet. In contrast, blue whales only eat krill, and detection of their songs plummeted with large ...

Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the ...

The blue whale is a carnivorous animal that doesn’t have proper teeth. Instead, it has baleen plates in its mouth to help it filter and feed on small prey. Its diet is mainly comprised of krill ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...

Whales are always on the move, so they have to eat a lot to keep them going. Fortunately, the ocean offers a range of dining options. All whales are divided into two suborders: Odontoceti (those that ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...