a family of whales that all use an extreme feeding strategy called lunge filter feeding. To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest ...

These things can tell us about the evolutionary history of whales.” “For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth.” ...

This slower evolution in turn suggests that, early on in their evolution, these filter-feeding whales achieved an optimal skull morphology, which required less subsequent modification. Open the ...