These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

DESCRIPTION: Robust and stocky with a gigantic mouth, the North Atlantic right whale is easily identifiable through its black coloration, lack of a dorsal fin, arched jaw that begins above ... FEEDING ...

Baleen whales, on the other hand, have an unusual larynx that serves both respiratory and sound-producing functions. But ...

It will take an enormous gulp of water into the sac created in its lower jaw and shut its mouth. Then, the whale expels the water while retaining thousands of tiny creatures in its fine baleen plates.

DESCRIPTION: Bowheads are enormous whales with stocky, blubber-insulated bodies and thick, triangular-shaped heads. They are blue-black in color with a large white spot on their lower jaw. There may .