To eat, rorqual whales open their mouths and lunge while their tongues invert and their mouths fill like giant water balloons full of floating prey. The whales' nerves are stretchy so they can ...

These questions about the biology of gigantism drive our research on rorqual whales, a family of whales that all use an extreme feeding strategy called lunge filter feeding. To study lunge-feeding ...

How did they survive? Let’s take a closer look! Humpback whales are a significant member of the Rorqual family, a group of baleen whales, but they are not the largest; the blue whale holds that ...

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. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!