Now it appears that humpbacks are the only baleen whales that can feed this way, thanks to their unique pectoral (or side) ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR.

Scientists have gotten the best estimates yet of exactly how much baleen whales, the largest animals on the planet, can consume in one day. Their caloric intake is mind-boggling.

Researchers reveal why only humpback whales master bubble-net feeding - their giant flippers provide the turning force others can’t match.

Quick facts about whales Where they live: In oceans around the world What they eat: A huge range of animals, from tiny plankton to giant squid How big they are: Between 7 and 100 feet (2 to 30 meters) ...

A study by the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (Smass) has revealed a dramatic rise in marine ...

Sperm whales are constantly eating and they can eat about three percent of their body weight daily. This usually amounts to a little over 900 kg (almost 2,000 pounds) of food per day.

Increasingly, some politicians and national delegations at fisheries organizations meetings argue that whale populations should be reduced because whales compete with human beings for ever-scarcer ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina ...

Killer whales traverse all the world’s oceans, from polar waters to the tropics. They are the seas’ apex predators, described in scientific literature in 1869 as “wolves of the ocean,” who ...