They eat squid, octopus, fish, prawns, crustaceans and other marine mammals, sucking in their prey and swallowing it whole. Whales with baleen, a filter-feeding system, eat smaller prey like krill ...

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 ...

Whales do eat some fish species that are commercially fished - they also eat species that aren’t commercially fished, as well as some that are predators of commercially fished species. For example, ...

Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans ... The water it takes in at the same time as its food is pushed out of the mouth by its enormous tongue, through strainer-like baleen plates ...

Baleen whales, known scientifically as Mysticeti, are a fascinating group of marine mammals that have evolved unique feeding mechanisms and adaptations over millions of years. Their fossil record ...

However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive—and scientists have only recently ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

The new figures have been used to calculate how much krill whales eat each year in the UK Overseas Territories. Across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, baleen whales eat 4.8 – 7.2 ...