A pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, swims in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. This huge cetacean reaches up to 24 meters in length and makes up to about half of all blue whales alive.© ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...