A group of whale watchers, look in horror as a huge humpback whale emerges from the water and swallows two kayakers whole!

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 ...

The skeleton of a rorqual whale lies in the sand along the shoreline of northern Namibia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

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 ...