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Appearance of baleen hair in a whale's open mouth Cross-section of jaw showing bone a, gum b, rigid plate c and frayed baleen hairs d and e. Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales. To use baleen, the whale first opens its mouth underwater to take in water.
The femur is the longest bone in humans. The longest bone in the human body is the femur. [23] The largest artery is the aorta [24] and the largest vein is the inferior vena cava. [25] The largest internal organ (by mass) is the liver, with an average of 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds). [26]
The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims ...
The skim-feeders are right whales, gray whales, pygmy right whales, and sei whales (which also lunge feed). To feed, skim-feeders swim with an open mouth, filling it with water and prey. Prey must occur in sufficient numbers to trigger the whale's interest, be within a certain size range so that the baleen plates can filter it, and be slow ...
A blue whale with its bow wave, showing the blowhole. The blue whale is a slender-bodied cetacean with a broad U-shaped head; thin, elongated flippers; a small 33 centimeters (13 in) sickle-shaped dorsal fin located close to the tail, and a large tail stock at the root of the wide and thin flukes.
A skeleton of the blue whale, the largest animal, extant or extinct, ever discovered. Mounted outside the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The largest blue whale ever reliably recorded measured 98ft (30m) long. A peregrine falcon, the world's fastest animal. Peregrines use gravity and aerodynamics to achieve ...
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