Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill in a day. Most baleen whales use a strategy called lunge feeding ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales, which have baleen plates, feed by taking huge mouthfuls of water and food. They ...

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 which hang down from the upper jaw. Watch how a blue whales ...

Both fish-oil pills and krill-oil supplements supply the healthful omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA. But there are differences. Krill oil comes from small crustaceans, not fatty fish, and typically ...

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 ...

They have baleen plates instead of teeth, which are made of keratin, allowing them to filter small prey such as krill, plankton and small fish from the water. The feeding process of baleen whales ...

They are some of the smallest animals in the ocean. But Antarctic krill play an enormous role in keeping the world's carbon emissions on track. Feeding on phytokplankton that absorb greenhouse ...