THIS is the bloody moment a killer whale ripped out its 30ft opponent's tongue before drowning it in a ferocious battle to the death. The orcas were captured clashing off the coast of California ...

A rare and dramatic predation event saw a superpod of more than 60 orcas take down a pygmy blue whale off the coast of ...

Finally, the whale closes its gigantic mouth. The pleats contract and the tongue pops back into shape, pushing the engulfed water against bristly plates of baleen hanging from the roof of the ...

The whale’s massive tongue and its prey washing in and out ... The coarseness of those filaments, just as the size, shape, and number of baleen plates, depends on the species, and it is this ...

"It pulls the back of the tongue inwards and creates a negative ... You can identify a whale's species by the shape of the vapor coming out of its blowhole. What you see when a whale spouts ...

Baleen is the soft, hair-like structure on the upper mouth of whales, such as the humpback whale in this photo ... had strong cheeks and a retractable tongue. These traits would have enabled ...

The size and shape of the curved 4.5-inch-long (11.6 centimeters) tooth clearly indicates that it belongs to an extinct sperm whale species ... fat or there was the tongue," that attracted ...

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are displaying some fascinating — and sometimes terrifying — behaviors.

A MASSIVE whale has washed up on a Scots beach but cops ... It’s not known how the 23ft (7 metres) creature died, but its tongue was distended which happens when decomposition gasses build ...

the research team observed 2,570 changes in melon shape. They noted that the vast majority of the time, these occurred during social interactions with their whale-mates—and mostly during line-of ...