A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

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Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

In fact, the largest blue whales are so huge that scientists think they may have hit a physical limit. When they open their wide mouths to feed they engulf enough water to fill a large living room.

How did whales get so big? How do they manage to support such ... To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the planet ...

"We think this is because blue whales are so big, and stopping to lunge-feed and then speeding up again is so energy-intensive, that they try to maximize their effort," Torres continued.

The huge whales can eat up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could ...