While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

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 have teeth) and Mysticeti ...

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 ...

About 34 million years ago, a group of whales began to develop a new way of eating. They had flatter skulls and feeding filters in their mouths. These are called baleen whales, which include blue ...

Killer whales off Canada's Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that ...

The observed species are classified as baleen whales, which have a large bristly whalebone at the front of their mouth to filter feed, instead of teeth. Lorinnah Hesper Whales were seen using ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century ...

Scientists have worked out how some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs. Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that ...

Those were some of the images etched on bowhead whale baleen during a workshop at the Elders & Youth Conference. More than 50 people gathered on the first floor of the Dena’ina Center on Tuesday ...