To sustain their huge bodies, blue whales ... point of the food web. A team at the University of Washington examined five ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

A rising, global demand for krill as a dietary supplement has been ravaging Antarctica's remote, frigid waters through krill ...

Baleen whales sing more when there is an abundant supply of food, according to a new study ... the study focused on three baleen species — humpback, fin and blue whales — located off the ...

Now, before you start picturing a Jonah-and-the-whale situation, thankfully, this wasn’t that dramatic. Humpback whales don’t actually have throats big enough to swallow a human. The whales ...

Humpback whales, despite their gargantuan size, eat very small prey like krill and plankton. To sustain their massive bodies, however, they must consume a lot of this food — up to 3,000 pounds ...