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North Atlantic Right Whale Skull
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC, United States
A Big Guy with an Even Bigger Mouth!
Right whale skulls are strongly curved to fit long baleen plates that filter food from the water. Right whales are skim feeders, unlike the Minke and other whales that lunge through schools of fish to feed.
Pacific right whales are even more endangered than their close relatives, the North Atlantic right whales.
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- Title: North Atlantic Right Whale Skull
- Type: Vertebrate Skull
- Rights: This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
- Scientific Name: <i>Eubalaena japonica</i>
- Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
- Field: Vertebrate Zoology
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