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 don’t just move up and down in the water column. Many migrate across ocean basins, foraging in productive polar oceans, then mating and calving in relatively barren tropical waters.

Whales eat a variety of ocean life, depending on what species you mean. Some have teeth and swallow prey whole while others filter through baleen.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists calculate how much plastic whales eat: ‘Like training for a marathon and eating only jelly beans’ Scientists put tracking devices on more than 200 humpback, fin and blue whales ...

Fin whales eat both small fish and krill and ingest an estimated three to 10 million pieces of plastic daily. “Consumption rates are likely even higher for whales foraging in more polluted ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “whales eat fish” argument isn’t accidentally getting the facts wrong — it’s a deliberate choice of framing whales as pests.