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 ...

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 ...

Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans ... 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 ...

New research published today in the journal Nature finds that gigantic baleen whales—such as blue, fin and humpback whales—eat an average of three times more food each year than scientists ...

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

Scientists have found that large whales eat at least three times as much as ... were used to track 321 baleen whales from seven species in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.

Researchers demonstrated that changes in whale eating habits, dating back almost ... Changes in the environment make baleen whales vulnerable, as they are huge in need of large amounts of food.

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 ...

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 ...