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 ...
In the 20th century, whalers killed roughly 2 million large whales in the Southern Ocean. Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale ... fishing for Antarctic krill — tiny swimming ...
Whale watchers had an “incredible and unexpected sighting” off the coast of California. The viewers saw not just one, but two blue whales during the “pleasant surprise,” according to an Oct.