Baleen whales eat (and poop) a lot more than we realized. In a single day, a blue whale can gulp down the caloric equivalent of 30,000 Big Macs.

By Peter Corkeron In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster than anyone ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. What do blue whales ...

Throughout this time baleen whales eat much less or even not at all as there is much less food available. On average, they only eat 0.4% of their body weight per day during the winter, ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Baleen whales include the bowhead whale, the humpback whale, the grey whale and, of course, the blue whale. These whales eat their food using a clever system called filter feeding. What is filter ...

Modern bowhead and right whales are species that use filter-feeding techniques to eat, sifting material through plates of baleen as they swim with their mouths open near the ocean’s surface to ...

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Baleen whales – including the 29 fin whales, 126 blue whales and humpback whales the researchers studied off of California's coast – are filter-feeders, meaning that rather than chomping on ...

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. Some have teeth and swallow prey whole while others filter through baleen.

Blue whales could be accidentally eating 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, according to new research suggesting filter-feeding whales could be the most vulnerable marine species to ...

The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales, which have baleen plates, feed by taking huge mouthfuls of water and food. They ...