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.
Eubalaena japonica drawing
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
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
North Pacific right whale
…and the International Whaling Commission. The North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Southern right whales are all members of the family Balaenidae. The bowhead whale found in the Arctic is also a balaenid whale, but sufficiently different to warrant its own genus Balaena. The cladogram is a tool for visualizing and…
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