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 ...

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 ...

From a computer model of the larynx, the team found that baleen whales could produce frequencies up to 300 Hertz, at a maximum depth of 100 metres below the surface of the sea. That is within the ...

Another key area of research describes the oasis ecosystems that whale carcasses provide to deep sea species ... Other large baleen whales probably also contribute to this effect but there ...

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 ...