Whales do eat some fish species that are commercially fished - they also eat species that aren’t commercially fished, as well as some that are predators of commercially fished species. For example, ...

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 ...

Whales are always on the move, 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 ...

Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans ... The water it takes in at the same time as its food is pushed out of the mouth by its enormous tongue, through strainer-like baleen plates ...

However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive—and scientists have only recently ...

Bowheads have the longest baleen (filter-feeding system) of any baleen whale, up to 13 feet long. They use their baleen to filter plankton from the water ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

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 ...

Right whales are filter-feeding baleen whales that were hunted almost to extinction during the height of the whaling industry. As such, some of the most basic information about them remains ...