A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

More than a dozen supertrawlers are licensed to fish for krill ... although toxins ingested by whales are often harmlessly stored in their blubber, this is consumed when the whales are hungry.

But despite their enormous size, blue whales feed almost exclusively on krill - small, shrimp-like crustaceans that grow to about six centimetres. These tiny animals are found in all of Earth's oceans ...

Blue whales are the largest animals ever, reaching up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long and weighing up to 330,000 pounds (149,686 kg). They primarily eat krill, filtering these tiny crustaceans ...

As Earth’s largest animals, blue whales are mighty big eaters, gulping tonnes of food each day. They also now are ingesting huge amounts of plastic, according to scientists, due to the alarming ...

Some might question whether the growth in numbers of blue, humpback and other whales around South Georgia is simply a bump that's been driven either by a short-term bounty of krill at the island ...

The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South ... Drifting in the same currents that deliver krill to South Georgia, it risks being caught in the shallows surrounding the island.

The small crustaceans are the focus of a commercial fishery and are being ... whales, a major consumer of krill, are in recovery. Fin whales – the second largest baleen whale after the blue ...