The primary difference between the two suborders, Mysticeti and Odontoceti, has to do with the whale’s feeding hardware. Whales in the Mysticeti suborder have baleen plates that serve as a ...
The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 meters in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, ...
THE eleventh volume of the “Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History” contains a descriptive account, by Dr. Thomas Dwight, of the external characters and skeleton of a young razor-back whale, ...
The inner ear of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), reconstructed from CT scans, shows key anatomical features, including the cochlea, acousto-vestibular nerve, oval window and vestibular system ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Found floating at sea between Belgium ...
Two whales driven ashore, one 117 feet, the other 87 feet. Handley (ms): Watson (1898, vol. 2, p. 429) reported that "Two dead whales were driven onshore at Assateague beach, near Snowhill, Maryland, ...
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2017 This skeleton of a Blue Whale in the Natural History Museum of London represents the largest animal known to have ever existed and yet, one that ...
Size comparison of a modern blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) and the extinct Perucetus colossus, known from a fossil discovered in Peru. Researchers initially estimated the mass of Perucetus as ...
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