I had just been on my first whale watch in more than 20 years and had watched humpbacks feeding off of Stellwagen Bank - this article made me realize I didn’t know much about how whales feed or ...

Some other baleen whales feed differently than the rorquals. The right and bowhead whales are "ram filter-feeders," slowly swimming through prey-laden water with their mouths open.

Baleen hangs in long, slender keratin plates from the upper jaws of filter-feeding whales, which take in small prey ranging from nearly microscopic krill to larger fish.

Baleen whales feed an estimated 80 to 150 days out of the year, so using these daily intake estimates, the team could get an idea of how much the whales put away in a single feeding season, Savoca ...

Lunge feeding whales accelerate toward a patch of prey, engulf a huge volume of water, and then filter out the prey through the baleen plates in their mouths. This strategy is used by the largest ...

Baleen plates -- the signature bristle-like apparatus toothless whales use to feed -- reveal how these large aquatic mammals adapt to environmental changes over time.

Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave their Antarctic feeding grounds in January every year and spend three ...

Humpback whale baleen was shorter and coarser than bowhead baleen, and captured fewer beads. Feeding styles. The findings reveal how the baleen of bowhead whales and humpbacks differs biomechanically.

Like baleen whales today, it used these plates to eat its prey through a process known as filter feeding. “There is absolutely no evolutionary link between hupehsuchians and whales!” ...

image: 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. view more .

It might not seem like it, but we live in a world full of giants. Blue whales are the largest animal ever to move across the planet, with the biggest measuring in at over 100 feet long and ...

Scientists have discovered a 30-million-year-old whale that used its teeth to both bite and catch prey, and filter seawater for food. This ancestor of the modern baleen whale gives us new ...