The Balaenidae Family - Mysticeti

Baleen Whales

The baleen apparatus is at its most extravagant in this species. The head is huge, in some species up to 40 per cent of body length. All seven neck vertabrae are fixed into a single unit to support the enormous body weight.


The Sei whale

Balaenoptera borealis



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