Some baleen whales, or whales that have plates in their mouths to help sieve out plankton ... and include species like humpbacks, blue whales, and gray whales. As solitary creatures, they are easier ...

Most baleen whales (suborder Mysticeti), such as blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus ... Instead of teeth, these whales use baleen plates to filter-feed on small prey like krill, plankton, and ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Blue whales are not only big ... heads taking up around 33% of their body length. They rely on their baleen plates to filter-feed on schools of tiny, shrimp-like zooplankton—their main food ...

Baleen whales, such as humpbacks and blue whales, are filter feeders. They depend on their baleen plates to trap tiny organisms like plankton and krill as they engulf large mouthfuls of water. In ...

Their diet primarily consists of krill, which they filter from immense quantities of seawater through their baleen plates. Some of the biggest individuals may eat up to 6 tons of krill in 1 day. Blue ...

Then, it strains the water out using its unique baleen plates as a strainer. To catch its prey off guard, the blue whale uses a unique swimming motion. After it spots a school of krill, it turns 180 ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have ... These deep singers in the "flight" club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde's and minke whales. Meanwhile, their ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...