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Typically, the length of a blue whale is about 24 to 27 meters (78.75 to 88.5 feet). However, it can be as long as 30 meters. In size, the female blue whales are about 10 meters longer than the males. The length of its flippers is 8 feet (2.4 meters)…

Despite the enormous size of the blue whales, they tend to rely on some of the smallest ocean creatures: krill (euphausiids). The multi-chambered stomach of these whales is large enough to devour 2,200 pounds of food. Occasionally though, they also feed on amphipods, copepods and pelagic red crabs. However, the…

The loggerhead turtles are highly nomadic marine turtles and their habitats are widely distributed throughout their lives. They undertake long migrations between their nesting sites and foraging grounds. Loggerhead Sea Turtle Habitat Loggerhead turtles are found in tropical, temperate and subtropical coastal waters around the world. They do not, however,…

The leatherback sea turtles are highly migratory species. They tend to migrate longest distances among all marine turtles. They are known to swim around 3,700 miles each way from the foraging ground to the breeding site. Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat Leatherbacks are essentially pelagic turtles but they also frequent coastal…

Leatherback sea turtles are voracious creatures and they tend to eat twice as much as their own weight. They have scissor-like jaws but feed mainly on soft-bodied animals like tunicates, siphonophores, cephalopods and salps. However, they usually feed almost exclusively on jellyfish which is strange because the jellyfish are made…

For nesting, a female leatherback swims ashore. After digging a hole on a sandy beach, she deposits around 100 to 120 eggs. In every nest, there are about 80 fertilized and 30 unfertilized eggs. Each egg measures about the size of a billiard ball. The eggs are incubated for about…

Tigers do not live in Africa they never had and they probably never will! Lately however, conservationists are making deliberate attempts to introduce tigers in Africa. The tiger’s evolution began in the northern Asia but scientists believe that tigers could have possibly arrived in Alaska over the last 100,000 years.…