The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Carousel feeding is one of several orca hunting tactics ... gulping fish before the orcas could pick them off, and the fin whales merely showed their curved fins as they caught a quick breath ...

I first learned about this issue in early 2022, when a colleague working aboard a cruise ship told me that he had seen approximately 1,000 fin whales feeding on krill near the South Orkney Islands ...

They usually are spotted alone or in groups of two or three and use side-lunging as a way of feeding on schools of fish, the NOAA said. Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has ...

Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram (2.2 lbs) at auction Thursday, as officials try to keep ...

fin, blue and right whales) are now feeding in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands waters in summertime. Humpback whales were the first species to be hunted commercially in the Scotia Arc ...

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 ...

Fin whales are the world's second-largest animal ... He said they may have arrived in the area to feed on mackerel. A sighting was made of the adult on Wednesday near Ardersier on the Moray ...

With a call as loud as a large ship, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are among the noisiest creatures in the sea. For some seismologists who monitor earthquakes by recording seafloor vibrations, ...