They primarily eat krill, filtering these tiny crustaceans through baleen plates in their mouths. Blue whales can live up to 90 years, with some known to reach 110 years old, and their main ...

Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout ... as its food is pushed out of the mouth by its enormous tongue, through strainer-like baleen plates which hang down from ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales, which have baleen plates, feed by taking huge mouthfuls of water and food. They ...

As baleen whales, these species are filter ... while fin whales eat 6-12 tonnes of krill and humpback whales eat 5-10 tonnes of krill or 2-3 tonnes of fish. The new study found that the whales ...

The new figures have been used to calculate how much krill whales eat each year in the UK Overseas Territories. Across South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, baleen whales eat 4.8 – 7.2 ...