Whales are some of the best known and largest animals to have ever existed, and yet somehow this giant whale completely escaped me! How could this be? Well, I'm just going to have to go through all of the whales to see if there are any more that have managed to swim under my sonar.

#clintsreptiles #whales #phylogeny

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"Mother & baby sperm whale" by Gabriel Barathieu ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAJ
"Pod of sperm whales" by Will Falcon aka Vitaly Sokol ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAK
"Whale brain" by Yohei Yamashita ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAL
"Sperm Whale Scale" by Steveoc 86 ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9d
"Sperm Whales Diving" by Will Falcon aka Vitaly Sokol ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9e
"Cheetahs on the Edge" by National Geographic youtu.be.com/THA_5cqAfCQ
"Sperm Whale Socializing" by Will Falcon aka Vitaly Sokol ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9v
"Big Mama" by Clpramod ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9w
"Spotted gar" by Clinton & Charles Robertson ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9f
"Great Blue Heron" by Googie man ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9x
"Dolphin Encounter" by Ste Elmore ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAM
"Flounder" by NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9y
"South Asian river dolphin" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9c
"Baird's beaked whale" by Ted Cheeseman ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9g
"Hubbs' beaked whale skull" by Dawn Pedersen ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAH
"Inia" by Dennis Otten ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAi
"Amazon river dolphin" by Michelle Bender ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAG
"Amazon dolphin eating fish" by frank wouters ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZA6
"Inia geoffrensis" by Nortondefeis ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZA5
"A. Flussdelfin" by Oceancetaceen ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZA4
"Amazon river dolphin" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZA3
"La plata dolphin" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZA2
"Oceanogràfic" by Javier Yaya Tur (CAC, S. A.) ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9$
"Narwhal" by прессслужба ПАО "Газпром нефть" ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z7y
"Pod of Narwhals" by прессслужба ПАО "Газпром нефть" ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z7z
"Baluga Whales" by Diliff ucb 2.5 w.wiki/5ZAN
"D. leucas" by Steve Snodgrass ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAP
"Skeleton of a young male narwhal" by Pcornill ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAQ
"D. leucas" by flickr.com/photos/mikejsolutions/ ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9z
"Yangtze porpoise" by Huangdan2060 ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9h
"P. phocoena" by Erik Christensen ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAR
"harbor porpoise" by Ecomare/Salko de Wolf Den Hoorn Texel ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9i
"Kailani Koa" by lolilujah ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/lolilujah/8340119999
"Dolphin Point" by lolilujah ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/lolilujah/8335801765/
"Porpoise" by Colin Knowles ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/colink/8622196097
"Harbour porpoise" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAF
"Dall's porpoise" by Susan E Adams ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9j
"Bottlenose dolphin" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAS
"Pilot whale spyhop" by Barney Moss ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAT
"Bottlenose Dolphins" by Vince Smith ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9m
"Shamu" by Terabyte ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAU
"Chasing Chinook" by Oregon State University ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAD
"Dolphins" by whoisjmb flickr.com/photos/58441769@N05/7978717385/
"O. Orca" by SeaWorld ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAV
"Pygmy right whale" by Chris_huh ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAE
"Humpback whale" by Marco Fumasoni ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/marcofumasoni/22635633034
"Whale baleen" by Randall Wade (Rand) Grant ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAW
"WHALES!" by Howard Ignatius ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/howardignatius/7841623640/
"Twin blowholes" by Alan Vernon ucb 2.0 flickr.com/photos/alanvernon/5864144623/
"C. marginata" by Lycaon.cl ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAX
"Ford F350" by SsmIntrigue ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAC
"Whale breaching" by Glenn Edney grida.no/resources/3542
"Humpback Whales" by Christopher Michel ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9n
"Bowhead" by Bering Land Bridge National Preserve ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9o
"Humpback Whale, breaching" by Whit Welles ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAY
"Hippo" by Bernard DUPONT ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9p
"Pig farm" by kallerna ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAZ
"Camel in Daak" by Najamuddin Shahwani ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAa
"Grant's gazelle" by Charles J. Sharp ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAb
"Spotted Deer" by Alastair Rae ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZAB
"Cow" by Kim Hansen ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9q
"Rainbow trout" by Liquid Art ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9r
"Sperm whale, giant squid" by Mike Goren from New York ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9b
"Baird's beaked" by Encyclopædia Britannica britannica.com/animal/beakedwhale#/media/1/57198/67452
"Beluga in Valencia" by Toniher ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5ZAA
"Baleen graywhale" by jkirkhart35 ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5ZA9
"Greenland right whale" by Encyclopædia Britannica britannica.com/animal/rightwhale#/media/1/503523/67457
"S. salamandra" by Oriol Sastre ucb 4.0 w.wiki/5Z9s
"BELUGA" by Bob ucb 2.0 w.wiki/5Z9t
"R. harudiniensis" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAc
"R. kasrani" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAd
"J. hunderi" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAe
"A. cotylalveus" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAf
"K. pernix" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAg
"C. furlongi" by Nobu Tamura ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5ZAh
"Hindlimb Flippers" i.redd.it/xdtue5if9ko21.jpg
"Brain" by Looie496 ucb 3.0 w.wiki/5Z9u