The first blue whale of the 2024 season was spotted about 7 miles off Laguna Beach. The animal was feeding off plentiful krill found off sea mounds. (Photo courtesy of Danawharf.com by Laura Lopez) ...

The whale – the blue whales is the world’s largest mammal with some growing more than 100 feet long – was spotted on Sunday, April 28, about seven miles out from Laguna Beach’s coastline ...

A tag attached to the back of a blue whale recorded these videos (forward and backward facing views) during feeding lunges. As the whale targets a patch of krill near the surface, it performs a ...

Blue whales, which can reach about 98 feet long, can engulf water equivalent to 135% of their body mass. The figure is 42% for their much-smaller cousins, the minke whales . Dwarf Minke Whale is ...

A blue whale calf drinks between 50-100 gallons of milk per day. ... When approaching a large, concentrated school of prey, the whale will begin to accelerate up to 20 mph and then lunge forward.

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

A new study of Antarctic minke whales reveals a minimum size limit for whales employing the highly efficient 'lunge-feeding' strategy that enabled the blue whale to become the largest animal on Earth.

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 ...