The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot. The blue whale, the largest animal in Earth's history, eats about 16 tons of krill daily in the North Pacific, gobbling up these tiny shrimp-like crustaceans with a filter-feeding system in the mouth using baleen plates made of
The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yielded a simple answer: a whole lot.
The blue whale, the largest animal in Earth’s history, eats about 16 tonnes of krill daily in the North Pacific, gobbling up these tiny shrimp-like crustaceans with a filter-feeding system in their mouths using baleen plates made of keratin, the substance found in people’s fingernails, scientists said on Wednesday.
“That is roughly the weight of one fully loaded school bus,” said study coauthor Nick Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first study to methodically calculate how much food blue whales and some of their close relatives eat has yi.
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