Estimating the amounts of krill or fish consumed by whales has long been an obsession of the proponents of industrial whaling, who argue that these amounts are too large and then use the figures ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

The authors then compared these estimates with the amount caught by the krill fishery, and suggested that whales eat about 20 times as much krill as taken by the fishery.

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas off Australia’s coast ...

Krill are ocean-dwelling crustaceans highly sought as food by sea predators. The main krill species live in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic Ocean) and might spend more time trying not to become food for ...

Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

Krill is the cornerstone of the Antarctic ecosystem, feeding everything from blue whales, the largest animals to ever exist, to seals, penguins, and countless seabirds.