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A narluga (portmanteau of narwhal and beluga) is a hybrid born from mating a female narwhal and a male beluga whale. [1] ... Skulls of a beluga, narluga, and narwhal.
Both species are relatively small whales, 3–5 m (9.8–16.4 ft) in length, with a forehead melon, and a short or absent snout. Premaxillary teeth are absent. [ 1 ] They do not have a true dorsal fin, but do have a narrow ridge running along the back, which is much more pronounced in the narwhal.
The whale's remains suggest it's a smaller relative of Basilosaurus cetoides, which lived along Alabama's coast 34-40 million years ago. ... A 34-million-year-old whale skull.
Skull of a cross between a narwhal and a beluga whale, at the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen. The beluga was first described in 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas. [1] It is a member of the family Monodontidae, which is in turn part of the parvorder Odontoceti (toothed whales). [1]
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Police are trying to trace a whale skull due to be studied in Scotland, which has gone missing from a beach. The northern bottlenose whale carcass washed up near Cape Wrath in the far north of ...
The sperm whale has a particularly pronounced melon; this is called the spermaceti organ and contains the eponymous spermaceti, hence the name "sperm whale". Even the long tusk of the narwhal is a vice-formed tooth. In many toothed whales, the depression in their skull is due to the formation of a large melon and multiple, asymmetric air bags.
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.