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.

Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking ... When they are skim feeding they swim slowly through swarms of fish or plankton with their mouth open to catch mouthfuls of food.

The bowhead whale, for example, often swims along with its mouth open on the surface of the ocean, allowing the water to flow through its baleen plates while trapping prey inside. This species has the ...

Pirotta said baleen whales such as humpbacks open their jaws very wide to scoop up as much fish and krill as possible and then expel the water through the fibrous plates they have instead of teeth.

While baleen whales have huge mouths, ... If a human ever winds up in a baleen whale’s mouth, it is most likely that the ...

Baleen whales all have long strands hanging from the top of their mouth – imagine lots of straw broom bristles. These strands are made of the same material as your nails and hair, called keratin.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen ...

Baleen whales include the blue whale, the largest animal ever known. ... Throat grooves running from the rorquals’ mouth to underbelly expand to allow in prey and large amounts of water.

Well it now seems that one of its close relatives, named Hupehsuchus, fed much like a modern-day baleen whale. ... trapping the concentrated krill and whatnot inside the whale's mouth.

This photo provided by Blue Kingdom Whale and Wildlife Tours shows a seal in the mouth of a humpback whale on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in the waters off of Anacortes, Wash. AP ...

Blue whales swim up to krill and open their large mouths around them. They then push out the ocean water, while the krill stay trapped inside their mouths by the baleen. Baleen whales swallow the ...