Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

As a last act, he and his mates painted their initials inside the whale's condo-size mouth. In 1963, the same year that blue whales gained some measure of international protection, Natural History ...

Humpback Whale Jumps Out of Water Next to Tour Boat and Waves at Stunned Onlookers Dell captured video of the whale closing its mouth around his son. In the footage, Adrián disappears inside the ...

SEATTLE — It's a good thing seals aren't on a humpback whale's menu. A photograph by a whale-watching naturalist captured a seemingly bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the ...

The ocean is home to the largest animals of all-time, the great whales, yet these oceanic ... past the baleen to filter out the prey inside the mouth. It is thought that this extreme lunge feeding ...

The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the animal's own body weight. The water it takes in at the ...