They looked closely at the anatomy of the throat ... and also considered the direction of muscle fibers. Here, a group of humpback whales lunge feed. Lunge feeding is when the whale lunges ...

When it's pressurized, and flow stops, sound stops,” says Joy Reidenberg, a professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City who studies whale anatomy. An illustration of a ...

One by one, the students study, sketch and measure their individual bones. The 164 pieces once belonged to a gray whale that swam through Puget Sound. Now, they’re part of a scientific and educational ...