It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

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.

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

Ambergris that forms a mass too large to be passed through the intestines is expelled via the mouth, leading to the reputation of ambergris as primarily coming from whale vomit.

When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.

Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

In Tales from the Crypt # 44 a plague-stricken man is eaten by a sperm whale, which produces ambergris that results in a cursed perfume.

In Futurama Season 4, Episode 16 " Three Hundred Big Boys ", Kif gives Amy a watch that is shortly after swallowed by a whale named Mushu.

The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales ( called Mysticeti ).

The blue whale is usually classified as one of eight species in the genus Balaenoptera ; one authority places it in a separate monotypic genus, Sibbaldus, but this is not accepted elsewhere.

DNA sequencing analysis indicates that the blue whale is phylogenetically closer to the sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis ) and Bryde's whale ( Balaenoptera brydei ) than to other Balaenoptera species, and closer to the humpback whale ( Megaptera ) and the gray whale ( Eschrichtius ) than to the minke whales ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis ).

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

The most popular species of whale found in Cape Breton's waters is the Pilot whale.

Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ' the whale ' today.

Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean " whale "; its original meaning, " large sea animal ", was more general.

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 2010 it was announced that a new species of extinct giant sperm whale, Livyatan melvillei was named in honor of Melville.

With one exception, the killer whale named Luna, no permanent separation of an individual from a resident matriline has been recorded.

In October 1985 a humpback whale affectionately named " Humphrey the humpbacked whale " by television media traveled up the Sacramento River before being rescued.

Eleven vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grampus after two members of the dolphin family ( Delphinidae ): Grampus griseus, also known as Risso's Dolphin, and Orcinus orca, also known as the killer whale.

His new discovery, which he named kerosene, burned more cleanly and was less expensive than competing products, such as whale oil.

* May 23 – Shamu One, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 painted like and named after a SeaWorld killer whale, begins flying for the airline.

The name is a partial translation of Norwegian minkehval, possibly after a Norwegian whaler named Meincke, who mistook a northern minke whale for a blue whale.

In 2000, genetic studies of right whales from the different ocean basins led scientists to conclude that the populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere constitute three distinct species which they named: the North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis ), the North Pacific right whale ( Eubalaena japonica ) and the Southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ).

Hubbs ' beaked whale ( Mesoplodon carlhubbsi ) was initially thought to be an Andrews ' beaked whale when discovered by ichthyologist Carl Hubbs ; however, it was named in his honor when it was discovered to be a new species.

The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ( Mesoplodon ginkgodens ) is a poorly known species of whale even for a beaked whale, and was named for the unusual shape of its dual teeth.

There were at least two dozen sightings of an unknown beaked whale named Mesoplodon sp.

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.

The pygmy sperm whale was first named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1838.

In 2006, the Beluga whale Puiji gave birth to a female calf, later named Bella.

The film stars Jason James Richter as a young boy who befriends a killer whale, named " Willy.

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

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.

Jesus implies that Jonah's restoration after three days inside the great whale prefigures His own resurrection.

One killer whale was also attacked by its companions after being shot.

In April 2009 Greenland landed its first bowhead whale in nearly forty years after being given a quota by the IWC in 2008 for two whales a year until 2012.

The island was also the site of New Zealand's last whaling station, at Whangaparapara, which was opened only in 1956 ( over a century after the whaling industry peaked in New Zealand ), and was to be closed again ( due to depletion of whaling stocks and increasing protection of whale species ) by 1962.

Baleen whales, for example, eat millions of microscopic plankton at once, the prey being broken down well after entering the whale.

The name " Whalers " was selected after the Hartford Whalers of the NHL, with the Marlton team's jersey featuring the NHL team's logo but turned upside down to make the W an M. The team was restarted in 1998 as a roller hockey team, abandoning the upside down W for a sharper angrier whale logo similar to that used by the OHL Plymouth Whalers.

The Baron himself is " the direct-line male descendant of the Bashar Abulurd Harkonnen who was banished for cowardice after the Battle of Corrin ," and House Harkonnen's return to power " generally is ascribed to adroit manipulation of the whale fur market and later consolidation with melange wealth from Arrakis.

Nickerson returned to sea after his rescue, serving on other whale ships and eventually working his way up to captain of a merchant vessel.

Eden's Deputy Commissioner, Major A. G. Duff, sent a Mr. Duke, one of his assistants, to Thaybyoo Creek, between the Sittang and Beeling rivers, on the Gulf of Martaban, where he found a 37-ft whale, which had stranded there in June 1871 after swimming more than twenty miles up the creek — it was said to have " exhausted itself by its furious struggles " to get free and " roared like an elephant " before finally expiring.

For instance, in " The Marine Biologist ", he goes into the ocean alone to save a beached whale because his girlfriend thinks he is a marine biologist, and even tells her the truth about his occupation after he saves the day.

The whale died within 12 hours, sinking while heading out to sea after being confiscated and cut loose by the United States Coast Guard.

Tom McCahill, stated " the gaping grille looks a little like it was patterned after Namu, the killer whale ", but also stated that the Torino had " kind of pleasing, no-nonsense styling.

The sei whale ( or ), Balaenoptera borealis, is a baleen whale, the third-largest rorqual after the blue whale and the fin whale.