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Humpback whale breaching with pectoral fins lifting spray from the ocean surface.
Image ID: 03854
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27594
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus | Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27597
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus |
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Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27116
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Humpback whale breaching, pectoral fin and rostrom visible.
Image ID: 27955
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Humpback whale breaching, pectoral fin and rostrom visible.
Image ID: 27958
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Adult male killer whale, tall dorsal fin, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30435
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Fin whale underwater. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet.
Image ID: 27113
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, Argentina.
Image ID: 35910
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina |
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Saddle patch and dorsal fins of killer whales, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30421
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Fin whale dorsal fin. The fin whale is named for its tall, falcate dorsal fin. Mariners often refer to them as finback whales. Coronado Islands, Mexico (northern Baja California, near San Diego).
Image ID: 12769
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Humpback whale breaching, pectoral fin and rostrom visible.
Image ID: 27956
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Southern right whale mother and calf, flukes, Eubalaena australis, Argentina.
Image ID: 35924
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina | Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, Argentina.
Image ID: 35916
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina | Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis, Argentina.
Image ID: 35919
Species: Southern Right Whale, Eubalaena australis
Location: Puerto Piramides, Chubut, Argentina |
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A fin whale blows at the surface between dives. Coronado Islands, Mexico (northern Baja California, near San Diego).
Image ID: 12772
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white.
Image ID: 12792
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are usually almost entirely white.
Image ID: 12799
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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Rissos dolphin surfacing with eye showing. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego.
Image ID: 02314
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Rissos dolphin, breaching. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. San Diego.
Image ID: 00983
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Courting gray whales, Laguna San Ignacio.
Image ID: 03393
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico |
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A Rissos dolphin leaps from the ocean in a full breach. Note distinguishing and highly variable skin and dorsal fin patterns, characteristic of this species. White scarring, likely caused by other Risso dolphins teeth, accumulates during the dolphins life so that adult Rissos dolphins are almost entirely white. Offshore near San Diego.
Image ID: 07597
Species: Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Fin whale dorsal fin. The fin whale is named for its tall, falcate dorsal fin. Mariners often refer to them as finback whales. Coronado Islands, Mexico (northern Baja California, near San Diego).
Image ID: 12771
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07573
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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An enormous blue whale rounds out (hunches up its back) before diving. Note the distinctive mottled skin pattern and small, falcate dorsal fin. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07577
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Gray whale, raising its fluke (tail) before diving to the ocean floor to forage for crustaceans, , Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island.
Image ID: 21173
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | Gray whale dorsal ridge (back) at the surface in front of a boat full of whale watchers, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island.
Image ID: 21180
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada |
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Saddle patch and dorsal fin of a killer whale, Palos Verdes.
Image ID: 30434
Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca
Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA | Humpback whale with one of its long pectoral fins raised aloft out of the water, swimming on its side (laterally) as it does so.
Image ID: 01470
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Male humpback whale with head raised out of the water, braking and pushing back at another whale by using pectoral fins spread in a "crucifix block", during surface active social behaviours.
Image ID: 04106
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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