This allows all the tiny plankton and krill, as well as small jellyfish, squid, and fish to flow through their tiny throats ...

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

Sharks chomping on seals off Massachusetts, feasting on dead whale off Long Island: ‘Right in time for the 50th anniversary of Jaws’ ...

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.

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 ...

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 whales use quick body movements to tear pieces of bull kelp for use as tools, perhaps the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal.

Feeding Habits: Fin Whales mainly eat krill, small fish, squid, crustaceans, and plankton. To capture larger prey items such as fish or squid, they use suction feeding, rapidly expanding their throat ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina ...

Gray whale populations have plummeted to the lowest number in more than 50 years as climate change upends Arctic Ocean food webs.