Bowhead whale
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The bowhead whale, sometimes known as the Greenland right whale, Arctic whale, and polar whale, is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of
Bowhead Whale NOAA
Skeleton of a bowhead whale
1990 stamp of the Faroe Islands with a drawing depicting a mother and a calf
Resting on water surface in Foxe Basin
Right whale
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Right whales are three species of large baleen whales of the genus Eubalaena: the North Atlantic right whale, the North Pacific right whale and the southern right whale. They are classified in the fam
Bowhead whale
…known as the "right whale", and given the binomial name Balaena mysticetus. Today, the bowhead whale occupies a monotypic genus, separate from the right whales, as proposed by the work of John Edward Gray in 1821. For the next 180 years, the family Balaenidae was the subject of great taxonometric debate…
Southern right whale
North Pacific right whale in Half Moon Bay, California, 20 March 1982, photo by Jim Scarff
Southern right whale in the breeding grounds at Peninsula Valdés, Patagonia
Orange whale lice on a right whale