Whales

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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Iceberg

Animals; Whales

Iceberg is a white adult orca whale spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. White whales are unusual in almost all whale species, and Iceberg is the first white adult to have been ...

blubber

Animals; Whales

A thick layer of fat that lies under the skin of whales, seals, and certain other sea mammals.

porpoise

Animals; Whales

A small whale that is related to but smaller than a dolphin. Porpoises have blunt snouts and flat teeth.

Beluga whale (also called white whale) is a kind of cetacean which lives in the Artic and the sub-Artic oceans. Male belugas can length up to 6.5 meters and weight up to 1600kg, female belugas are ...

blue whales

Animals; Whales

Blue whales are marine mammals, and they are the largest animals that have ever existed. They length 30m and they weight around 180tons (although it is very difficult to weight them due to its size, ...

gray whale

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A gray whale is often called the Devil Fish because it fights really hard when hunted. An adult whale can grow as long as 52 feet and can reach a weight of 36 tons. Its significant feature is the ...

sperm whale

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A member of the genus Physeter, the sperm whale is a toothed whale having the largest brain of any animal. Its name comes from the term spermaceti, which is the milky-white waxy substance found in ...