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General Whale Questions How can you tell a mature male killer whale from a mature female killer whale? What's the fastest marine mammal? What's the largest marine mammal? Largest Aquatic Lifeforms What's the largest mollusk? What's the largest turtle? What's the largest species of penguin? Strange Facts What color are most penguin egg yolks? What is unique about the Ganges River dolphin's eyesight? What animal has the largest head? What animal has the largest eye?  General Whale Questions How can you tell a mature male killer whale from a mature female killer whale?
The male's dorsal fin is larger and straight. The female's dorsal fin is hooked.What's the fastest marine mammal?
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is the fastest-swimming marine mammal, reaching speeds of up to 40 mph.What's the largest marine mammal?
The largest marine mammal is the blue whale. In fact, it is the most massive animal that ever existed! The blue whale can reach a length of 100 feet and weigh around 150 tons.top Largest Aquatic Lifeforms What's the largest mollusk?
A mollusk is an animal that at some point in its life (or evolution) had a shell. One class of mollusk is the class Cephalopoda. It includes the octopus, squid, nautilus and cuttlefish. Of these, the largest is the giant squid, with a maximum recorded measurement of 47 feet for a specimen caught in 1966 near the Bahamas.What's the largest turtle?
The largest turtle is the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). The largest recorded was about 8 feet and weighed about 1,900 pounds. The largest freshwater turtle is the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temmincki), which has an average weight of 200 pounds.What's the largest species of penguin?
The largest is the emperor penguin. It can reach a height of 48 inches. Emperor penguins are found in Antarctica.top Strange Facts What color are most penguin egg yolks?
Red. The yolk color is affected by carotenoid pigments in the crustacean-based penguin diet.What is unique about the Ganges River dolphin's eyesight?
The dolphin is nearly blind - it uses echolocation to find food and navigate. It also uses its flippers to skim along the river's edge to navigate. The Ganges River is so murky that eyesight would be practically useless.What animal has the largest head?
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) has the largest head of any animal. The sperm whale's head can be up to one-third of its total body length, or 20 feet long. Rounding out the dimensions, the head could be 10 feet high and 7 feet wide.What animal has the largest eye?
The giant squid has the largest eye of any animal, either living or extinct. In a 39-foot specimen, the diameter was measured at 7.08 inches, and in a 55-foot specimen the diameter was 15.74 inches. In comparison, a blue whale's eye has the diameter of 4.70 inches, and humans have an eye diameter of .94 inches.top |
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