Baleen whales, the largest creatures on Earth, can send extremely low-frequency underwater calls to one another. But little is known about how they actually process these sounds. Now, researchers ...

“Ah, to be Jonah and watch baleen in action from a seat on a whale’s tongue,” he says. Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea.

As a result, it has not been clear whether, as they evolved, early baleen whales retained the teeth of their ancestors until a filter-feeding system had been established. An early initial assumption, ...

Baleen whales, also known as mysticetes, are the largest animals on earth, ... ears, tongue, brain, muscles, and jaws--and then simulate how sound would travel through it. ...

The baleen whales include the to have ever lived, the blue whale. Instead of teeth, ... "They use their tongue and lip muscles to suck prey off the seafloor." ...

Whale's streaming baleen tangles to trap food Date: March 13, 2013 Source: The Journal of Experimental Biology Summary: Many whales filter food from water using racks of baleen plates in their ...

At 98 feet long and 200 tons, blue whales are by far the largest animals on Earth. To get that massive, blue whales need to eat millions of calories. A day. They feed exclusively through baleen ...

Other baleen whales, such as the blue whale, identify large swarms of krill and engulf them in one huge gulp. They then contract their throat pleats and use their tongue to push the water out through ...

Finally, the whale closes its mouth, pushing water out through its baleen plates, and swallows the remaining prey. How the whales protect their airways as water floods the mouth has been a mystery ...

These 19th-century whalers collected the bulk of the carcass, but the orcas would eat the baleen whales’ tongue through the lower jaw, a tacit agreement known as the “law of the tongue ...

Many whales filter food from water using racks of baleen plates in their mouths, but no one had ever investigated how baleen behaves in real life. According to Alexander Werth from Hampden-Sydney ...