In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, ...

Odontocetes, or whales with teeth, use echolocation to hunt their food with sound rather than sight. They eat squid, octopus, fish, prawns, crustaceans and other marine mammals, sucking in their ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed. This behemoth can reach up to 110 feet long and weigh over 160 tons. Almost ...

Marine scientists have discovered that whale sharks eat plants, making the iconic fish the world's largest ... the animals were actually eating a lot of plant material. "This causes us to rethink ...

Clearly, some whale species do eat some fish species - they always have. But the question is, would reducing whale populations result in bigger catches for commercial fishermen? Whales do eat some ...

Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish, squid, octopus ... hunt by opening their mouths wide and pushing out a lot of water through their baleen to trap krill.

They also breach to help with the digestion of their feasts, and whales eat a lot of fish daily. The average humpback whale weighs at least 55,000 pounds and consumes thousands of pounds of fish a ...

Joanna Steidle said she captured this footage on Saturday morning of the whale “captivating surfers and lunge feeing on [a] massive school of menhaden bait fish just ... Make A Lot Of Sense ...

Kelsey Williamson Despite being the largest shark in the ocean, whale sharks aren't apex predators in the same way as some of their relatives. They tend to eat small fish, shrimp and plankton by ...

Whale sharks are primarily planktivores, meaning they mostly feed on plankton but will also eat small fish. They’re also filter feeders and spend almost eight hours a day gulping ocean water to ...

(SOUNDBITE OF WHALE SHARK BREATHING) SOMMER: Whale sharks are the largest fish ... to be eating the most prized part - the liver. PANCALDI: Sharks in general, they don't have a lot of fat.

A portion of the fish-eating resident killer whales — known as Southern Residents — is already listed as endangered in the U.S. and Canada. Salmon depletion from overfishing and habitat ...