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A screenshot from the video showing illustration of a whale at the surface of water at night.
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Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

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Humpback whales spend their summers feeding in cold, food-filled Arctic and Antarctic waters before swimming to warmer waters for the winter.
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Humpback Whales Going After Herring

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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How do Humpback Whales Feed?

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A humpback whale breaching in Antarctic waters.
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Humpback Whales in Antarctica: What Are the Whales Doing?

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This magnified photo provides a close-up look at copepods—tiny crustaceans that right whales feed on.
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Copepods: Right Whale Food

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A right whale opens wide, revealing huge plates of baleen hanging from its upper jaw.
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Right Whale Baleen

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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Phoenix is seen skim feeding off the coast of Maine in August 2004.
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Phoenix Feeding

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A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Crave Bone

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red worms penetrate holes in bone
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Zombie Worms Eating Whale Bone

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Humpback Whale, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Gloucester, MA, USA
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Humpback Whale, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, USA

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