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

Humpback whales, while harmless ... are crucial to the ocean’s ecosystem as they maintain balance in the food chain acting as filter feeders, per a Dana Wharf report. However, the massive ...

Whales sing more when they have a proximity to food, according to a new study by ... the study focused on three baleen species — humpback, fin and blue whales — located off the U.S. West ...

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 ...

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

A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern ... so they arrive just as their food supply peaks." This built-in timing mechanism has worked ...