Rorquals (/ˈrɔːrkwəlz/) are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains ten extant species in three genera...

as the common name in 1874. Blue whales were referred to as "Sibbald's rorqual", after Robert Sibbald, who first described the species. Herman Melville...

Mount Rorqual (65°39′S 62°20′W / 65.650°S 62.333°W / -65.650; -62.333) is a peak between Starbuck and Stubb Glaciers in southeastern Aristotle Mountains...

HMS Rorqual (S02) was a Porpoise-class submarine launched in 1956. She was built by the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The boat...

HMS Rorqual has been the name of two Royal Navy submarines. A rorqual is a type of whale: HMS Rorqual (N74), a Grampus-class submarine launched in 1936...

HMS Rorqual (N74) was a British mine-laying submarine, one of the six ships of the Grampus class of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vickers Armstrong...

whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as the finback whale or common rorqual, is a species of baleen whale and the second-longest cetacean after the blue...

comprises the families Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Eschrichtiidae (the gray whale) and Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale)...

The minke whale (/ˈmɪnki/), or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale. The two species of minke whale are the common (or northern) minke...

propellers and injected with a damping filler which cured the problem; Rorqual was later able to surface undetected off the Statue of Liberty. The silent...

Norwegian: [sæɪ]; Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale. It is one of ten rorqual species, and the third-largest member after the blue and fin whales. They...

harpoon gun mounted at its bow and was fast enough to chase and catch rorquals such as the fin whale. At first, whale catchers either brought the whales...

humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species in the...

BRUU-dəz), or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four. The "complex" means the number and classification remains...

invertebrates from seawater. Grey whales feed on bottom-dwelling mollusks. Rorqual family (balaenopterids) use throat pleats to expand their mouths to take...

hyperphalangy, with six or more phalanges per digit, evolved convergently in rorqual whales and oceanic dolphins, and was likely associated with another wave...

Cetaceans are the animals commonly known as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. This list includes individuals from real life or fiction, where fictional...

Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...

dolphins, huge coral formations, and other common tropical sea life. Rorquals, including blue whales, have returned to the Bohol Sea, which is a rare...

Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale), and...

Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known. Before its formal description, it was...

Balaenidae Balaenopteridae (Rorquals) Cetotheriidae...

balaena 'whale', and Ancient Greek πτερά (pterá) 'fin') is a genus of rorquals containing eight extant species. Balaenoptera comprises all but two of...

baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes. Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, with eleven species in three genera...

Balaenopteroidea: large baleen whales Family Balaenopteridae: slender-back rorquals and humpback whale (eight species) Family Eschrichtiidae: gray whale (one...

Sealion, c/d: 1961–1987 Walrus, c/d: 1961–1986 Grampus, c/d: 1958–1978 Rorqual, c/d: 1958–1976 Oberon class (Diesel-electric hunter-killer) Oberon,...

island of Malta in a service nicknamed the "magic carpet". Only one, HMS Rorqual, survived the war. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grampus class...

Pete damages the light's mechanics, causing the tower to shake. 73 2 "The Rorqual Affair" Juno Lee Doc Hammer August 12, 2018 (2018-08-12) 702 0.672 21 wakes...

large variety of marine fish, the plumbeous dolphin, the beaked dolphin, rorqual or blue whale and skates frequent the seas along the Sindh coast. The Pallo...

Cetotheriophanes is an extinct rorqual from the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) of northern Italy. Cetotheriophanes was originally described as a subgenus...