A newborn blue whale can weigh as much as 8,800 pounds. These large marine mammals need to eat a lot of food to have enough energy to live. They eat krill, and they eat a lot of it. A blue whale ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

Baleen whales mainly feed on krill, plankton, and small fish. They feed by taking in great mouthfuls of water which is filtered through the baleen plates which catch the krill or fish which the ...

The beginning of May also marked the official start of the humpback whale migration from Antarctica to warmer waters off NSW ...

Delphinidae is the family that includes all oceanic dolphin species. Orcas, also known as killer whales, are the largest dolphins and some of the world’s most powerful predators. All dolphins are ...

Krill are an important food source for many animals, including whales, seals, and penguins and other birds. Since krill oil is not an established treatment, there's no standard dose. Talk to your ...

In Juneau, North Pacific humpbacks and orcas are the two most common types of whales migrating through these calm waters. Humpbacks feed off krill and small baitfish, which Juneau's waters are ...

They analyze the biopsies aboard the ship to understand the full weight of climate change on whales’ health — everything from rapidly melting sea ice to dwindling populations of krill ...