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  • the world's largest animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). ... ****** Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus ****** Balaenoptera omurai ...
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  • Whale shark is the common name for a very large, slow, filter-feeding ... The whale shark is ubiquitous in tropical and warm oceans and lives ...
    14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
  • Members of Plesiosauria had no tail fin and the tail was most likely ... 23 meters (m) in length, and the modern whale shark (18 m), sperm whale ...
    11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
  • Sperm whale or cachalot is the common name for a large toothed whale ... observed are comparable in size to the fin whale (and smaller than blue ...
    27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
  • exists from historical samples of bowhead whale baleen. D. M. Schell, "Declining ... including bowhead whale, blue whale, fin whale, sei whale, humpback whale ...
    15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
  • Pennella sp. is a parasitic copepod of the fin whale; it grows to 30 cm and can appear as if a piece of fishing line or a tag, hanging from the skin ...
    10 KB (1,426 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
  • Narwhal is the common name for an Arctic whale, Monodon monoceros ... The narwhal also is known as the unicorn whale because of its unique ...
    16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
  • and 10 meters (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long ... a giant squid locked in battle with a sperm whale is a common one, although ...
    27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
  • were more fish shaped with a dorsal fin and tail fluke (Motani 2000a). ... converged so strongly on fishes that it actually evolved a dorsal ...
    16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
  • 1994). Members of the family have a single dorsal fin and tend to be silvery colored fish. Unlike most other fish, they have soft dorsal fins that ...
    15 KB (2,224 words) - 22:35, 1 January 2023
  • dugong has a fusiform body with no dorsal fin or hindlimbs, instead possessing ... that of a human woman. Coupled with the tail fin, this produced an image of ...
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  • ******Family Magnapinnidae: big-fin squid ******Family Mastigoteuthidae: whip-lash squid ******Family Neoteuthidae ******Family Octopoteuthidae ...
    13 KB (1,807 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
  • meaning "winged feet" or "fin-feet") are large aquatic ... are large flippers (hence the name "fin-feet"), and their bodies ...
    15 KB (2,167 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
  • and the anterior edge of the pectoral fin is not attached to the side ... such as harvesting shark fins for shark fin soup, as well as from recreational ...
    44 KB (6,861 words) - 14:42, 7 June 2023
  • in the near future. Examples: Blue whale, Kings holly, Pink fairy armadillo ... * Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) * Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) ...
    22 KB (2,981 words) - 16:35, 5 January 2021
  • and the anal fins (Nelson 1994). The first dorsal fin has nine to 27 rays, the pelvic fins have six rays and are placed behind the pectoral fins, which ...
    16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
  • Fish range in size from the 14m (45ft) whale shark to the 7mm (just ... in the family Lamnidae—shortfin mako, long fin mako, white, porbeagle, and ...
    18 KB (2,549 words) - 06:51, 17 May 2021
  • It is here that the Northern Humpback Whale, Fin Whale, Minke Whale, and the protected North Atlantic Right Whale are often observed. Areas like ...
    32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
  • * In the whale, the forelimbs become flippers for steering and maintaining equilibrium during swimming. * In the bat, the forelimbs have turned ...
    16 KB (2,329 words) - 16:13, 25 January 2023
  • and Cuvier's beaked whales, killer whales, fin whales, and sperm whales are also observed. Seabirds: The Kuril islands are home to many ...
    30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023

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