Up to recently, scientists did not really know how whales could eat the enormous amounts of krill they need to feed a record-sized body. It appears that this is now understood thanks to some serendipity.
![Whale lunge feeding - New York Times](https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/whale_gulping.jpg)
Sources: The New York Times article and the original paper of Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Nicholas D. Pyenson & Robert E. Shadwick.
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