Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

It finally swallows to consume the krill. 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 ...

These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 metres in length and can weigh up to 180 tonnes - so they need to eat a lot to keep them swimming. But despite their enormous size, blue whales feed almost ...

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tonnes of food each day. They also now are ingesting huge amounts of plastic, according to scientists, due to the alarming ...

via Wikimedia Commons Blue whales primarily eat tiny shrimp-like animals called krill. During feeding season, they can consume up to 4 tons of krill each day, using their baleen plates to filter them ...

Like Blue Whales, Fin Whales primarily eat krill and schooling fish but will feed on squid and planktonic crustaceans when available. Although they are known as one of the fastest whales in the world ...

The length of a blue whale - 30 metres - is equivalent to a class of children or three buses. Whales eat krill. Each mouthful is 40,000 litres. A blue whale is equivalent in weight to 25 elephants ...

The blue whale has a heart the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Its stomach can hold one ton of krill and it needs to eat about four tons of krill each day. They are the loudest animals on Earth and are ...