Thursday, June 29, 2017

Ancient South Carolina whale yields secrets to filter feeding's origins -- ScienceDaily

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived. And yet they feed almost exclusively on tiny crustaceans known as krill. The secret is in the baleen, a complex filter-feeding system that allows the enormous whales to strain huge volumes of saltwater, leaving only krill and other...

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