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The diet of each whale species is closely related to their size. Blue whales are examples of baleen whales, filter feeders who use jaws full of brush-like bristles to separate prey from the ocean ...

blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves a rapid acceleration and the engulfment of an enormous volume of prey-laden water, the size of which is roughly the size of a school bus.

Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

Could an enormous blue whale make a mistake and swallow a dolphin? Learn why it's not possible for blue whales to eat ...

Take the biggest of the bunch the blue whale. It weighs more than a Boeing 757. Has a belly button the size of a plate. And its network of blood vessels, if you laid them out in a line ...

The size of the files will also vary depending ... use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.

As a last act, he and his mates painted their initials inside the whale's condo-size mouth. In 1963, the same year that blue whales gained some measure of international protection, Natural History ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection ... the skull and model entertained visitors who came to marvel at a whale of such size that it could provide “commodious quarters ...