Blue whale anatomy

The ultimate guide on whale watching in Hervey Bay with tips on when to go, which tour to take and where to stay. Read more.

illustration of Blue Whale Anatomy by Uko Gorter, natural history illustrator (specializing in marine mammals but will do all fauna and conceptual illustrations, anatomical drawings, logos, maps, and other graphic illustrations)

Humanity may forfeit the chance to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction if conservation policies are not drawn up and implemented fast, says a new Cornell study in Oceanography.

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The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest baleen whale and the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. Blue whales grow to be 80 feet (25 m) long on average and are long and missile-shaped with a very small dorsal fin and long, thin flippers. They live individually or in very small pods (groups).

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Continued from Introduction Page… THE EVOLUTION OF WHALES Sometime between 70 million and 50 million years ago, after the last of the dinosaurs had died and mammals had inherited the land, one or more groups of mammals waded back into the water, presumably to feed on the abundant plant and animal forms there. These pig-sized, […]

Whale Skeleton

The Galeries de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie Comparée is done in a architectural style called 'Naturalism', sort of a generic term for Art Nouveau, Organic Architecture, and Expressionism. Art Nouveau was an anti-historical movement that was predominantly in Europe between 1890 and 1914, and as a style was developed by a generation, most likely as a response to the Industrial Revolution, who sought to create an art form appropriate to the new modern age.