The beluga whale is adapted to life in the Arctic, which is probably why it is shown in this whale drawing alongside a polar bear. The adult beluga is ...
The hyperdooron is also known as the bottlenose whale. This is another species of beaked whale. Northern Bottlenose Whales are one of the deepest-diving mammals known, able to dive ...
Great Northern Rorqual is another name for the blue whale. Reaching a maximum confirmed length of 29.9 meters (98 feet) and weight of 173 tonnes (190 tons), it is ...
This whale is more commonly known as the bowhead whale. The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale to spend its entire life in the Arctic and subarctic waters. ...
A vintage drawing of a killer whale, also known as an Orca. Despite its infamous name, wild killer whales are not considered a threat to humans, and no fatal ...
This is a whale drawing of a lesser rorqual, more commonly known as the Minke whale. Their common name originates from a Norwegian seaman named Meincke, who allegedly mistook ...
Long-finned pilot whales are known as such because of their unusually long pectoral fins. Despite its common name, the long-finned pilot whale is a large species of dolphin. This ...
This whale is sometimes referred to as the “unicorn of the sea” due to its large, protruding tusk. Narwhals live in the Arctic Ocean and around the coastlines of ...
Risso’s dolphin is named after Antoine Risso, whose description formed the basis of the first public description of the animal. This image is part of a collection of whale ...
This is not the same skeleton of the blue whale in the Natural History Museum. This drawing dates back to 1837, while the blue whale skeleton in the museum ...
James Sowerby, an English naturalist, first described the species in 1804 from a skull obtained from a male that had stranded in the Moray Firth, Scotland, in 1800. This ...
The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. They also have the largest brain of any creature. Spermaceti (sperm oil), from which ...