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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	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

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	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	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

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

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 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	Saddle patch and dorsal fin of a killer whale, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30434 Species: Killer whale, Orcinus orca Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA

Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30441 Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA	Killer Whales, Biggs Transient Orcas, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30442 Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA	Killer Whales, Biggs Transient Orcas, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30443 Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA

Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30444 Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA	Killer Whale, Biggs Transient Orca, Palos Verdes. Image ID: 30445 Location: Palos Verdes, California, USA	Humpback whale dorsal fin, one of the identifiable characteristics researchers use to capture/recapture humpback whales from year to year. Image ID: 27044 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA

Fin whale dorsal fin. The fin whale is the second longest and sixth most massive animal ever, reaching lengths of 88 feet. Image ID: 27110 Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus Location: La Jolla, California, USA	Blue whale rounding out at surface with dorsal fin visible, before diving for food, showing characteristic blue/gray mottled skin pattern. Image ID: 27345 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Dana Point, California, USA	North Pacific humpback whale showing extensive scarring, almost certainly from a boat propeller, on dorsal ridge. Image ID: 05909 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: 27112 Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus Location: La Jolla, California, USA	Humpback whale swimming with raised pectoral fin (dorsal aspect). Image ID: 04144 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA	Humpback whale dorsal fin. Image ID: 04359 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA

Whale shark dorsal fin and remora. Image ID: 01524 Species: Whale shark, Rhincodon typus, Remora Location: Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	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: 12774 Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico	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: 12775 Species: Fin whale, Balaenoptera physalus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico