Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
First mention of the word palæontologie, as coined in January 1822 by Blainville in his Journal de physique.
Blainville's beaked whale
Blainville's beaked whale, or the dense-beaked whale, is believed to be the widest ranging mesoplodont whale. The French zoologist Henri de Blainville first described the species in 1817 from a small piece of jaw — the heaviest bone he had ever come across — which resulted in the name densirostris. Off the northeastern Bahamas, the animals are particularly well documented, and a photo identification project started sometime after 2002.
Blainville's beaked whale
Skull of Blainville's beaked whale.
Teeth of an adult male.
Mouth of an adult female.