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blue whale blue whale
blue whale a baleen whale , Balaenoptera musculus. Also called the sulphur-bottom whale and Sibbald's rorqual, it is the largest animal that has ever lived. Blue whales have been known to reach a length of 100 ft (30.5 m) and to weigh as much as 120 tons; average length is about 75 ft (23 m).... Read more
Minke whale Minke whale
minke whale (lesser rorqual, Balaenoptera acutorostrata) See BALAENOPTERIDAE.... Read more
Beluga (Whale) Beluga (Whale)
white whale (beluga, Delphinapterus leucas) See MONODONTIDAE.... Read more
Humpback whale Humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) See BALAENOPTERIDAE.... Read more
Sei whale Sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale) See BALAENOPTERIDAE.... Read more
Bowhead whale Bowhead whale
Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale) See BALAENIDAE.... Read more
sperm whale sperm whale
sperm whale largest of the toothed whales , Physeter catodon, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is also called cachalot. Male sperm whales may grow to more than 70 ft (21 m) long and females to 30 ft (9 m). Most are dark blue-black all over; a few have white undersides. The large... Read more
biological oceanography biological oceanography
biological oceanography is the study of all aspects of the biology of the oceans particularly in the context of their physical and chemical environments, so that it overlaps with marine biology in many respects. The range of living organisms extends from the smallest living things, like viruses and... Read more
Toothed whales Toothed whales
Odontoceti (toothed whales; cohort Mutica, order Cetacea) A suborder of marine mammals that comprises ancestral forms, known from the Upper Eocene, and the four superfamilies: Squalodontoidea (extinct forms), Platanistoidea (river dolphins), Physeteroidea (large whales), and Delphinoidea (smaller... Read more
whaling whaling
whaling the hunting of whales for the oil that can be rendered from their flesh, for meat, and for baleen (whalebone). Historically, whale oil was economically the most important. Early Whaling Whaling for subsistence dates to prehistoric times. The early people of Korea were hunting whales as far... Read more

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