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An unappreciated group of filter-feeding animals found around our coastlines could clean up our waters and nourish a billion people. Is it time we championed bivalves?

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The blue whale and other baleen whales, the gentle giants of the sea, sift huge quantities of tiny prey from ocean water using a filter-feeding system in their mouths. But they were ...

“The snout of Hupehsuchus is highly convergent with modern baleen whales,” the study concludes. Yet does that mean that whales are somehow descended from the noble Hupehsuchus? Not exactly. “There is ...

A remarkable new fossil from China reveals for the first time that a group of reptiles were already using whale-like filter feeding 250 million years ago. New research by a team from China and the UK ...

As the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding behemoths of the marine realm - the Antarctic minke whale aptly can be called the littlest giant. It also ...

Filter-feeding mollusks respond to water pollution in a very detectable and measurable manner. With that fact in mind, scientists have created a commercial water-quality-monitoring system that uses ...

The gelatinous-looking lumps are made up of thousands of tiny, filter-feeding creatures Michael Schindler/USFWS First, there were "Frankenstein rabbits," and now there are "cursed gummy bears." The ...

A large, spotted tail slices through the ocean’s surface, getting closer to the chaos that is a nearby baitball. The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) makes its way to the large group of shimmering, ...