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Whales

The largest marine mammals with forelimbs modified as fins, a tail with horizontal flukes, and nasal openings on top of the head.

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melon

Animals; Whales

A large swelling of fatty-fluid that is found in the heads of many toothed whales, that is believed to improve sound focus used in echolocation.

fluke

Animals; Whales

Many whales and their relatives have a rubbery tail flipper which is known as a fluke.

pygmy right whale

Animals; Whales

The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata) is a baleen whale, and the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct. Unlike most other whales, it has rarely been ...

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