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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 | Blue whale fluking up (raising its tail) before a dive to forage for krill, Baja California (Mexico).
Image ID: 03332
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | A neonate gray whale calf, born just hours before, still exhbiting embryonic folds in the skin along its side. This baby gray whale was born in the cold waters of Big Sur, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place.
Image ID: 01135
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Monterey, California, USA |
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Gray whales, two males both with extended penis during courtship socialization, Laguna San Ignacio.
Image ID: 06431
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico | Gray whale baleen.
Image ID: 03388
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus | Blue whale fluke, powerful tail that propels the huge whale through the open ocean.
Image ID: 01910
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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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: 27113
Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus
Location: La Jolla, 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 | Gray whale.
Image ID: 01182
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Big Sur, California, USA |
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Whale shark.
Image ID: 01503
Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Whale shark.
Image ID: 01513
Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus
Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Blue whale fluke, powerful tail that propels the huge whale through the open ocean.
Image ID: 01911
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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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 | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07554
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
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 |
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Gray whale, neonate calf with embryonic folds visible.
Image ID: 01129
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Monterey, California, USA | Gray whale.
Image ID: 01190
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: Monterey, California, USA | Blue whale, caudal stem, fluke with median notch.
Image ID: 02220
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Blue whale, fluke, tail with median notch, lifting tail before diving in the open ocean.
Image ID: 02221
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale, fluke up before dive.
Image ID: 02310
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus | Blue whale fluking up, raising its tail, before a dive in the open ocean.
Image ID: 03336
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus |
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Courting gray whales, Laguna San Ignacio.
Image ID: 03393
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico | Gray whale, Laguna San Ignacio.
Image ID: 03395
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico | Courting gray whales, Laguna San Ignacio.
Image ID: 03396
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico |
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An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07549
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07552
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07555
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07557
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA | 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 | An enormous blue whale raises its fluke (tail) high out of the water before diving. Open ocean offshore of San Diego.
Image ID: 07519
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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