Now it appears that humpbacks are the only baleen whales that can feed this way, thanks to their unique pectoral (or side) ...

Humpback whales, despite their gargantuan size, eat very small prey like krill and plankton. To sustain their massive bodies, however, they must consume a lot of this food — up to 3,000 pounds ...

Whale songs provide key insight into ocean ecology, allowing scientists to make estimations on the prevalence of the species ...

Some whales may hunt by opening their mouths wide and pushing out a lot of water through their baleen to trap krill. Humpback whales sometimes work together to hunt.

However, their diets are distinct. While blue whales only eat krill, humpback whales eat krill and small schooling fish such as anchovy.

The humpback whale songs continually increased and were detected on 34 percent of days at the beginning of the study. They eventually rose to 76 percent of days after six years.

When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs. Unlike blue whales, humpback whales can also eat anchovies and sardines, and their choruses returned when there was a population ...

The ocean is going silent. Blue whales, the gentle leviathans that swim in all but one of the world’s oceans, are the singers ...

When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales’ songs. Unlike blue whales, humpback whales can also eat anchovies and sardines, and their choruses returned when there was a population ...

A high-tech system that involves a remote-controlled pop-up balloon-like device is helping some fishermen from getting their crab cages entangled with humpback whales.