In recent years, researchers have documented salmon surviving in North Slope rivers, bowhead whales expanding their foraging ...

Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how ...

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae ... called a baleen instead of teeth. A baleen is a fascinating modification of their upper gums. It consists of plates made up of long flexible hairs ...

Humpback whales cannot physically eat a person due to their incredibly small throats and all their food is filtered through the baleen plates in their mouths which are in place of teeth.

instead using comb-like baleen plates to filter through plankton, krill and other small fish in the water. A humpback whale swallowed a kayaker off the coast of Chile. (Photo: Lauren Elliott ...

Humpback whales feed by quickly lunging through a school of fish with their mouths wide open, then straining the water out through their baleen, the fringed plates they have inside their mouths ...

Pirotta said the inside of a humpback’s mouth ... that’s kind of what their baleen plates feel like,” she said. The depiction of Dory and Marlin inside the whale’s mouth in the Pixar ...

According to Nature PBS, Humpback whales are filter feeders ... massive gulps of water and pushing it out through their baleen plates—comb-like structures that trap food inside their mouths.

Humpback whales cannot physically eat a person due to their incredibly small throats and all their food is filtered through the baleen plates in their mouths which are in place of teeth.

humpback and grey whales, are filter feeders. They have baleen plates instead of teeth, which are made of keratin, allowing them to filter small prey such as krill, plankton and small fish from ...