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Roomy bellies

2013

MUSE - The Science Museum

MUSE - The Science Museum
Trento, Italy

Right under the skeleton of the second largest animal in the world, you could figure out how Jonah and Pinocchio must have felt. And the one above you is just a baby Balaenoptera physalus, better known as fin whale. This baleen whale species – a baleen being a substitute of teeth for filtering water and trapping small shellfish – can reach 26 meters in length.

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  • Title: Roomy bellies
  • Date Created: 2013
  • Location: Muse, Trento, Italy
  • Photographer: Matteo De Stefano
  • Object Name: Fin whale - Balaenoptera physalus
MUSE - The Science Museum

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