 |
Blue
Whale - Photos and Images of the World's Largest
Marine Mammal |
 |
|
Blue whales are mammals in the order Cetacea, suborder Mysticeti, family Balaenopteridae, genus Balaenoptera. The family Balaenopteridae is commonly referred to as rorquals, a Norwegian term meaning "furrowed whale," a reference to the grooves balleen whales display on their ventral side. The grooves are actually folded skin, which expands when the rorquals take in massive amounts of water while feeding. Blue whales are most closely related to humpback whales and gray whales according to DNA sequencing analysis.
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of blue whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, fluke, Gulf of California,
Mexico, Pacific Ocean
Image #: 046412 |
Image of blue whale feces, Balaenoptera musculus, floating on surface, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007590 |
Stock photo of blue
whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, Mexico, East
Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007519 |
Photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, blow, central Baja Peninsula, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Image #: 009076 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of endangered blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, adult and juvenile, probably mother and calf, San Diego, California, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 009783 |
Image of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, exhaling at surface, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007556 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, fluking, raising flukes to start deep dive, off central Baja Peninsula, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Image #: 009075 |
Photo of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, Mexico,
East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007505 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, Baja California, Mexico, Pacific
Ocean
Image #: 007585 |
Image of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, fluking, San Diego, California, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 010848 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, baleen
Image #: 012043 |
Photo of two blue whales, Balaenoptera
musculus, breaching aerial, Channel Islands National Park, California, Pacific
Image #: 012052 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of blue whale,
Balaenoptera musculus, aerial photo, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007593 |
Image of of blue whale skull, Balaenoptera musculus
Image #: 012064 |
Stock photo of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus, Baja California, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 009784 |
Photo of a blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, shadow of airplane gives scale, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 007521 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Picture of blue
whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Image #: 011371 |
Image of of blue whale, Balaenoptera
musculus, feeding, aerial, Monterey, California, Pacific
Image #: 012065 |
Stock photo of blue
whale ear drum, Balaenoptera musculus
Image #: 012042 |
Photo of endangered
blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, spouting, California, East Pacific Ocean
Image #: 014324 |
|
|
|
|
