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  2. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    Labeled sperm whale skeleton. Like many cetaceans, the sperm whale has a vestigial pelvis that is not connected to the spine. [citation needed] Like that of other toothed whales, the skull of the sperm whale is asymmetrical so as to aid echolocation. Sound waves that strike the whale from different directions will not be channeled in the same ...

  3. Cetacea - Wikipedia

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    Diagram featuring the typical skeletal of a toothed whale (top) and a baleen whale (bottom) The cetacean skeleton is largely made up of cortical bone , which stabilizes the animal in the water. For this reason, the usual terrestrial compact bones, which are finely woven cancellous bone , are replaced with lighter and more elastic material.

  4. Whale - Wikipedia

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    Biosonar by cetaceans Sperm whale skeleton. Richard Lydekker, 1894. The whale ear has specific adaptations to the marine environment. In humans, the middle ear works as an impedance equalizer between the outside air's low impedance and the cochlear fluid's high impedance. In whales, and other marine mammals, there is no great difference between ...

  5. Beluga whale - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. File:Sperm whale head anatomy (transverse + sagittal).svg

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  7. Livyatan - Wikipedia

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    Livyatan is the largest fossil sperm whale discovered, and was also one of the biggest-known predators, having the largest bite of any tetrapod. [1] [8] Diagram comparing the upper and lower size estimates of Livyatan (bottom three) with the size of mature sperm whales, including one of the largest individuals recorded (top three), and a human

  8. Wadi al Hitan - Wikipedia

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    Wādī al-Ḥītān (Whale Valley) is unusual in having such a large concentration of fossil whales (1500 marine vertebrate fossil skeletons) in a relatively small area. The fossils of whales vary from single bones to entire skeletons, and a number of partial skeletons are currently on display in the public part of the park.

  9. File:Sperm whale head anatomy (skull cutaway).svg - Wikipedia

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