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Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (), Glaucobalaena and Eschrichtioides from Italy, [1] [2] and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. [3]
The bones were first found in 1961 by a father and son, Masato and Yoshio Tajima, in a riverbed in Akishima, Tokyo, lending it the nickname of the Akishima whale. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was prepared by locals, under the mentorship of Hiroshi Ozaki, and subsequently put into storage at the National Museum of Nature and Science until it was transferred ...
Lyngbakr (Icelandic, lyngi "heather" + bak "back"), a massive whale-like sea monster reported in the Örvar-Odds saga to have existed in the Greenland Sea; Moby Dick, a sperm whale in the novel Moby-Dick (also often incorrectly spelt without the hyphen) by Herman Melville; Monstro, the whale in Pinocchio (1940 Disney film)
Engraved on the tooth is a picture of the ship Francis, which artist Fred Myrick served on during the early 1800s. Now, sperm whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. So, in ...
Bakan shared a video of the pygmy killer whale in an Oct. 22 post on X, formerly Twitter. Flashlight beams illuminate the dark gray dolphin and its distinctive white mouth.
The animals, the largest members of the dolphin family, have made headlines in recent months over a series of boat-ramming incidents off the Iberian Peninsula, including last week.
Dawn the humpback whale in the Sacramento River in 2007. Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional individuals are indicated by their source. It is arranged roughly taxonomically
Lane Kiffin works the spin room, furiously trying to position Ole Miss for a CFP bracket bid. It's a tough road, but he's got a case.