A humpback whale and its offspring (Image by Adobe Stock) ...

Baleen whales have two methods of feeding – skim feeding and lunge feeding. When they are skim feeding they swim slowly through swarms of fish or plankton with their mouth open to catch ...

These whales eat their food using a clever system called filter feeding. Baleen whales have a special structure in their mouth that enables them to filter feed. Instead of teeth, they have baleen ...

AP But instead of remaining underwater afterward to filter through its baleen, it surfaced and began opening and closing its mouth. After the whale went back underwater, photographs and videos ...

Once at the surface, a lunge-feeding whale will typically close its mouth almost immediately to ... As for the whale’s bristly baleen, these fibers and plates are flexible and resistant to ...

Another species of baleen whale, the humpback whale, was seen accidentally swallowing a pelican. But the whale felt the difference in its mouth right away and spat the pelican out, letting the ...

But instead of remaining underwater afterward to filter through its baleen, it surfaced and began opening and closing its mouth. After the whale went back underwater, photographs and videos were ...

But instead of remaining underwater afterward to filter through its baleen, it surfaced and began opening and closing its mouth. After the whale went back underwater, photographs and videos were ...