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 ...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever, reaching up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long and weighing up to 330,000 pounds (149,686 kg). They primarily eat krill, filtering these tiny crustaceans ...

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 ...

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 ...

And whales are physically necessary for a healthy ocean: Humpbacks eat krill, and krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ice - plants that absorb planet-warming carbon as they grow.

In this photo made by a CCAMLR observer, fishermen aboard the Chilean krill trawler Antarctic Endeavour prepare to release a humpback whale caught in a net in waters ... a little bit out of the blue, ...

The resurgence of blue whales around the island of ... This train carries abundant krill, the small crustaceans that whales love. But because there were so few blues left after commercial whaling ...

a major consumer of krill, are in recovery. Fin whales – the second largest baleen whale after the blue whale, had been hunted to near extinction. Now they are growing in number, returning to ...

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 ...