Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see some “great species diversity.” The “abundant” amount of krill in ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

MIRISSA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a resident, year-round population to thrive. In 2021 ...

A blue whale’s stomach can hold 2,200 pounds of krill at a time, and they eat around 9,000 pounds of krill each day. Considering the tiny krill weighs less than one ounce, a blue whale eats ...

Blue whales are listed as an endangered species, with only between 10,000 and 25,000 left in the world. This is mostly because they were heavily hunted during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

While blue whales only eat krill, humpback whales eat krill and small schooling fish such as anchovy. If the prey species are more abundant and more densely concentrated, whales can forage more ...

THIS IS MS. BLUE. SHE'S A GIANT, 87-FOOT-LONG, BLUE WHALE SKELETON AT THE SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER IN SANTA CRUZ. "MISS BLUE IS ICONIC BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, SHE'S BEEN IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR ...

Female blue whales feed heavily in the summer because they largely refrain from eating when nursing their young. Newborn blue whales are born measuring over 22 feet in length and weighing around 2 ...

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — It's whale season off the Southern California coast and Blue Whales are putting on a show like never before. In this Zevely Zone, I took a boat ride to remember with ...

Given their magnitude, blue whales eat 20 million to 50 million calories per day, roughly the equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs, according to NPR. However, instead of Big Macs, blue whales primarily ...

Jeremy Kiszka receives funding from Save our Seas Foundation. Blue whales are fascinating animals. At 24-30 metres in length (longer than a basketball court) they are the largest creatures on ...

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.