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Whales are a
widely distributed and
diverse group of
fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an
informal and
colloquial grouping, they
correspond to...
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Whaling is the
hunting of
whales for
their usable products such as meat and blubber,
which can be
turned into a type of oil that was
important in the Industrial...
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Cetacea (/sɪˈteɪʃə/; from
Latin cetus '
whale', from
Ancient Gr**** κῆτος (kêtos) 'huge fish, sea monster') is an
infraorder of
aquatic mammals belonging...
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humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a
species of
baleen whale. It is a
rorqual (a
member of the
family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species...
- The orca (Orcinus orca), or
killer whale, is a
toothed whale and the
largest member of the
oceanic dolphin family. It is the only
extant species in the...
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extant species in the
sperm whale family,
along with the
pygmy sperm whale and
dwarf sperm whale of the
genus Kogia. The
sperm whale is a
pelagic mammal with...
- The blue
whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a
marine mammal and a
baleen whale.
Reaching a
maximum confirmed length of 29.9 m (98 ft) and
weighing up to...
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whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding ****
shark and the
largest known extant fish species. The
largest confirmed individual...
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Baleen whales (/bəˈliːn/), also
known as
whalebone whales, are
marine mammals of the
parvorder Mysticeti in the
infraorder Cetacea (
whales,
dolphins and...
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minke whale (/ˈmɪŋki/), or
lesser rorqual, is a
species complex of
baleen whale. The two
species of
minke whale are the
common (or northern)
minke whale and...
