Fourteen species of baleen whales are ... a 2021 study in Nature found. Whales are carnivores who feast on other animals like plankton, crustaceans, fish, squid, sea birds and even fellow whale ...

Even early whales, themselves evolutionary marvels, might have fled at the mere shadow of this serpentine titan. The 40-foot-long sea snake wasn't just another big fish in the sea - it was the ...

Well it now seems that one of its close relatives, named Hupehsuchus, fed much like a modern-day baleen whale. Although baleen whales are enormous, they feed mainly on tiny creatures such as krill ...

baleen regrows over time. “We didn’t see any injured sea lions that day, so we assume it just escaped without any trouble,” says Dekker. “About five minutes later, the whales were all ...

But that event gave strange new life-forms the opportunity to evolve, including a small sea-dwelling reptile that filter-fed much as bowheads and other baleen whales do today. The discovery was ...