Balaenidae
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Balaenidae is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti that contains mostly fossil taxa and two living genera: the right whale, and the closely related bowhead whale.
Skull and skeleton of the North Atlantic right whale
Inupiaq Eskimos flensing a bowhead whale, Alaska
North Pacific right whale
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The North Pacific right whale is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. On average and maximum weight, they are the second largest whale species in the world.
North Pacific right whale by John Durban, NOAA
North Pacific right whale, Half Moon Bay, California, March 20, 1982, photo by Jim Scarff
Breaching right whale, Half Moon Bay, California, March 20, 1982, photo by Jim Scarff