By Keith Anthony Fabro When certain algae flourish in the sea, they produce neurotoxins that can sicken both humans and ...

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 ...

Some humpback whales specialise in krill and some favour eating small schooling fish. Krill-favouring humpbacks, according to the study, may ingest about 4 million microplastic pieces (up to 17kg ...

some politicians and national delegations at fisheries organizations meetings argue that whale populations should be reduced because whales compete with human beings for ever-scarcer commercial fish ...

Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National ... krill, then blowing bubbles to herd them into a ball—Similä thought they might be cooperating with the orcas. Or the orcas and the ...

with a previous Stanford study finding that whales fertilise the ocean through their droppings, providing nutrients for the phytoplankton that krill eat. A particularly distressing consequence of ...

These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 metres in length and can weigh up to 180 tonnes - so they need to eat a lot to keep them swimming. But despite their enormous size, blue whales feed almost ...

Following whales is often the most efficient way to find large congregations of krill, Savoca said. In December 2024, Jonathan Zaccaria, an expedition leader with National Geographic, reported ...

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...

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 ...