rorqual

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She’d like to see a different family of whales examined for comparison, as the three individuals studied were all juvenile rorqual whales.

From National Geographic • Feb. 21, 2024

New research provides a fuller understanding of this species, focusing on a foraging behavior called lunge-feeding that it shares with the other members of its cetacean group, the rorqual whales.

From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023

Lunge-feeding whales are also called rorqual whales and include two of the largest animals on Earth — the blue and fin whales.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022

Dozens of rorqual species have arisen and died off since the advent of lunge feeding.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2020

Now then, the biggest whales, those rorqual whales that frequent the waterways of the Aleutian Islands, have never exceeded a length of 56 meters—if they reach even that.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.