A blue whale begins eating a large krill patch. The krill nearest the whale's mouth are beginning to jump as they recognize the predator approaching. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

Whale watchers had an “incredible and unexpected sighting” off the coast of California. The viewers saw not just one, but two ...

Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.

These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 metres in length and can weigh up to 180 tonnes - so they need to eat a lot to keep them swimming. But despite their enormous size, blue whales feed almost ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal on the planet. Despite its huge size, it feeds on tiny creatures called krill. Tap to read more.

A blue whale, the largest vertebrate animal ever in the history of life, engulfs krill off the coast of California. Photograph authorized under National Marine Fisheries Service permit #16111 for ...

"Ninety-nine percent of the blue whales that were alive in 1900 were gone by 1960," he said. Scientists in the '70s had assumed that without the whales to prey on them, populations of krill and ...

Scientists surveying marine life off our coastline have been watching marine mammals roll in for the Bay Area seafood buffet.

The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...