By Peter Corkeron In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster than anyone ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. ...

Whales off the California coast consume up to 10 million microplastics every day, study finds 01:53. The largest animals on Earth are having their health jeopardized by some of the smallest ...

The whales eat amphipod crustaceans like tiny shrimp and worms, which they consume by sucking up water and sediment from the seafloor, where such creatures live, ...

Blue whales could be accidentally eating 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, according to new research suggesting filter-feeding whales could be the most vulnerable marine species to ...

Are whales eating more plastic than other species? Not necessarily. Flesh-footed shearwaters—large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand ...

And humpback whales that primarily eat fish are eating about 200,000 pieces a day, the study estimated. It’s unclear what the health effects are on the giant animals.

For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them —- a perplexing behavior that has long intrigued ...

Just by eating their normal prey, blue whales can inadvertently ingest up to 10 million bits a day. Fin whales, the second largest whales on Earth, can ingest between 3 to 10 million pieces.