Marine biologist Carrie Newell photographed four blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — 3 miles off Depoe Bay.

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still ...

It’s estimated that the blue whale will consume up to 35,000 pounds of krill per day during peak feeding season. That’s around 10% of their entire body weight. Some sources estimate that it ...

The ability to engulf a huge volume of water is crucial to making this feeding strategy work. Blue whales, which can reach about 98 feet long, can engulf water equivalent to 135% of their body mass.

Blue whales can consume over six tons of prey daily near the poles in their summer feeding grounds. Although they eat a lot during the summer, they barely eat anything when they migrate to warmer ...

The feeding calf in the video is large, says Edyvane, and probably in its second year with its mother – blue whales wean at three years. Other key blue whale behaviour has been glimpsed and ...

As many as 30 blue whales, including multiple pairs of mothers and calves, showed up off the Channel Islands recently and seem to be sticking around, officials said. The whales regularly feed off ...

Lunge feeding whales accelerate toward a patch of prey, engulf a huge volume of water, and then filter out the prey through the baleen plates in their mouths. This strategy is used by the largest ...

Typically, blue whales, the largest mammal on Earth, come around during summer months, but this one has been feeding with the fin whales. This blue whale is also special, blowing mostly out of ...

The ability to engulf a huge volume of water is crucial to making this feeding strategy work. Blue whales, which can reach about 98 feet (30 meters) long, can engulf water equivalent to 135% of ...

There are only about 10,000 blue whales left in the entire Pacific Ocean. Blue whales use Monterey as a feeding grounds to feed on krill in the summer and in the winter they usually migrate south ...