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The DNA profile of a sampling of whale meat in the Japanese market found evidence of blue/fin hybrids. [28] Similarly, a whale caught by whalers off the coast of Iceland in 2018 was found to be a hybrid descended from a female blue whale and a male fin whale. [ 29 ]
Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known. [3] Before its formal description, it was referred to as a small, dwarf or pygmy form of Bryde's whale by various sources. [4] The common name and specific epithet commemorate Japanese cetologist Hideo Omura . [5] [6]
Eubalaena glacialis, North Atlantic right whale (2018 [322]) Family Balaenopteridae. Balaenoptera acutorostrata, common minke whale (2014 [323]) Balaenoptera borealis, sei whale (2018 [322]) Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale (2018 [322]) Balaenoptera physalus, fin whale (2014 [323]) Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback whale (2018 [322]) Family Bovidae
Balaenoptera (from Latin balaena 'whale' and Ancient Greek πτερά (pterá) 'fin') is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. [2] Balaenoptera comprises all but two of the extant species in its family (the humpback whale and gray whale); the genus is currently polyphyletic, with the two aforementioned species being phylogenetically nested within it.
Marine animal experts are investigating the death of a 50-foot-long fin whale discovered across the bow of cruise ship in the Port of Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday.
The second-largest whale species after blue whales, fin whales are classified as endangered species, according to NOAA. A fully grown whale can reach up to 85 feet long and weigh between 40 and 80 ...
The sound waves of a fin whale song is loud enough to penetrate Earth’s crust and assist with mapping the ocean floor, a new study has found. Singing fin whales can help map ocean floor: study ...
Northern fin whales are smaller than their southern hemisphere counterparts, with adult males averaging 18.5 m (61 ft) and adult females 20 m (66 ft). [4] Maximum reported figures are 22.9 m (75 ft) for males and 24.7 m (81 ft) for females in the North Pacific, while the longest reliably measured were 20.8 m (68 ft) and 22.9 m (75 ft) — all were caught off California, the former in the 1920s ...