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The skeleton of the killer whale is of the typical delphinid structure, but is more robust.
A whale skeleton discovered there in 1990 was proved to be a new whale species ( see Eobalaenoptera harrisoni ).
With the help of its sister city Bodenwerder, the birthplace of the Baron, the club amassed a number of " historical proofs " of presence of the Baron in Königsberg: an ancient silver thaler " returned " to Kaliningrad by Bodenwerder's mayor as a debt for a mug of beer drunk by Münchhausen, Order of Saint Anna issued to the Baron by Paul I of Russia for his " faultless service ", and the skeleton of the whale in whose belly the Baron was entrapped for a while.
Minke whale skeleton, Museum Koenig, University of Bonn.
The building features labs for biology, geology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics, a courtyard with a crystalline glass gazebo in the center, a Foucault pendulum designed by Alan Thorndike, as well as Gray whale skeleton named Willy.
Its initial theme of a general-purpose scenic and curiosity park led to one of its most famous attractions, a large whale skeleton, which had been washed up near the coast of The Needles in 1842, and is still a showpiece today.
A 30 foot-long skeleton of a juvenile gray whale, assembled by students from Ensenada, hangs from the ceiling.
On 6 September 2010 Karl Shuker announced that a hitherto-unknown photograph of Trunko had been discovered by German cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler on the website of the Margate Business Association, and Shuker recognised from this photo that Trunko had been nothing more than a globster, i. e. a massive, tough skin-sac of blubber containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton have separated from the skin and sunk to the sea bottom.
The skeleton of a Bowhead whale with the hind limb and pelvic bone structure circled in red.
* El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe — Is an interactive museum of science that resembles the skeleton of a whale.
A full whale skeleton is on display in the main atrium, as well as other numerous artifacts from Ikitsuki's history.
When she woke up the next morning, Canola realized the wind had created the music by blowing through partially rotted sinew still attached to a whale skeleton.
The Kotha Bastion contains a fine collection of sculptures, coins, inscriptions and copper plates and the skeleton of a whale.
The skeleton of a gray whale is visible in the background.
This famous whale also came to the attention of Herman Melville, who published his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851: " at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale ... Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout ; so that like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his long cavities — spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan — and swing all day upon his lower jaw.
Inside the whale skeleton in the episode, Bart finds the remains of Jonah.
* Kobo whale, a blue whale skeleton
A juvenile blue whale skeleton ( Kobo whale | KOBO ) hanging in the Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
But, perhaps the most important addition of the decade was the acquisition of a juvenile humpback whale skeleton, suspended in the Lagoda room.
A new blue whale skeleton, named Kobo was suspended from the ceiling.

whale and was
The scent of amber was originally derived from emulating the scent of ambergris and / or labdanum but due to the endangered status of the sperm whale the scent of amber is now largely derived from labdanum.
The skin and blubber from a whale which was boiled was a delicacy and so was walrus.
The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.
When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.
At Ostia, in front of a crowd of spectators, Claudius fought a killer whale which was trapped in the harbor.
Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean " whale "; its original meaning, " large sea animal ", was more general.
Two wolphins currently live at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii ; the first was born in 1985 from a male false killer whale and a female bottlenose.
Their intention was to expose what they considered embezzlement of the meat collected during whale hunts.
However, on May 8, 2010, a sighting of a gray whale was confirmed off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea, leading some scientists to think they might be repopulating old breeding grounds that have not been used for centuries.
In his 1835 history of Nantucket Island, Obed Macy wrote that in the early pre-1672 colony a whale of the kind called " scragg " entered the harbor and was pursued and killed by the settlers.
Van Deinse points out that the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.
In May 2010, a gray whale was sighted off the Mediterranean shore of Israel.
The same whale was sighted again on June 8, 2010, off the coast of Barcelona, Spain.
In January 2011, a gray whale that had been tagged in the western population was tracked as far east as the eastern population range off the coast of British Columbia.
By 1934, the western gray whale was near extinction.
More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because " of the inferior quality and low price of the dark-colored gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.
Van Deinse points out the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725, as one target of early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.
In his 1835 history of Nantucket Island, Obed Macy wrote that in the early pre-1672 colony, a whale of the kind called " scragg " entered the harbor and was pursued and killed by the settlers.
In 1972, a three-month-old gray whale named Gigi ( II ) was captured for brief study by Dr. David W. Kenney, and then released near San Diego.
In January 1997, the newborn baby whale J. J. was found helpless near the coast of Los Angeles, California, long and in weight.
The principal product of the oil in the 19th century was kerosene, which quickly replaced whale oil for illuminating purposes in the United States.

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