Sea Lion – Their only natural predators are killer whales and sharks, placing them among the ocean's top hunters. As opportunistic feeders, they eat a wide range of fish, squid, octopus, and smaller ...

From the formation of inner ear bones to the rise of hair to cover our bodies, these developments made us distinct from other ...

Odontoceti (those that have teeth) and Mysticeti (which have baleen plates instead). A whale's diet depends on its suborder. But not all whales within each group eat exactly the same thing. Each ...

including the blue, humpback, right, minke and gray whale. Instead of teeth, the animals have plates of what is called baleen, through which they sieve huge mouthfuls of tiny creatures from the water.

Blue whales - the largest animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago. Researchers and filmmakers in the Seychelles ...

King of the Blue Ocean–or KOBO–is one of the museum’s signature attractions. The blue whale was accidentally struck by a vessel in 1998 and brought to the museum two years later. New Bedford ...

These estimates put the Perucetus as being as heavy as or heavier than the biggest blue ... most whales do,” Dr Motani said. Palaeontologists have not yet uncovered the skull or teeth of a ...

Pooping whales changed the course of Asha de Vos’ career. The Sri Lankan marine biologist was aboard a research vessel near her home island in 2003 when she spotted six blue whales congregating.

When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Those who have stopped by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have more than likely marveled over the 66-foot whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling. Robert Rocha, the ...

Nobody knows exactly how many whales are ship-strike victims every year, because most of them sink after they're hit. But blue whales, humpbacks, and fin whales are on the endangered list ...