What is "baleen whales"

Usage examples of "baleen whales".

There is more plankton on this world than a million times as many baleen whales could ever consume.

In fact the baleen whales may be the most long-lived of all mammals, including man.

But I did write a bio paper last semester on the diets of several species of baleen whales.

The eggs of elephants, baleen whales, and possibly albatrosses remain viable for at least sixty years, and the eggs of tortoises are viable for much longer, so human eggs could presumably have evolved the same capability.

Many, especially the baleen whales, are placid browsers, straining through vast volumes of ocean for the small animals on which they graze.

This applies particularly to baleen whales--the blue and the grey, for instance.

One season he might be wholly concerned with the great whalebone or baleen whales, who literally strained their food from the sea as they swam, mouth open, through the rich plankton soup.

Whales are divided into two main groups, toothed whales and baleen whales.

Beagles and begonias, bacteria and baleen whales all use nucleic acids for storage and transmission of hereditary information.

There are brains four to six times larger than ours in elephants and the baleen whales, but at a price of far larger bodies to support them.

Summer in the Gulf of Alaska meant fishing boats and baleen whales, both in large numbers, making noises and cluttering up sonar displays.