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.

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 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.

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 ...

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!” ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

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 .

As the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding behemoths of the marine realm - the Antarctic minke whale aptly can be called the littlest giant. It ...

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 ...

The team compared the shape and dimensions of the latter skull to 130 skulls from different aquatic animals, including 15 species of baleen whale, 52 species of toothed whale, 23 seal species, 14 ...