On the outside, the fins of a whale resemble the fins of a fish, because they have evolved for the same purpose. But when you look at a whale skeleton, the fins look like arms and hands. That's because whales are not fish, they are actually mammals that have evolved from land-dwelling creatures with four legs.
The blue, fin, minke, gray, and sperm whale. These whales are not only species that might be a variation of Humpback whales but are acknowledged to have interactions with Humpback whales.
yes the facts book on whales said that 50 million years ago they walked on earth as animals. there fin's as there legs
Those are the flippers, or 'pectoral' fins.
caudal fin-the tail pectoral fin-the tail on the ventral side of the shark just above the pelvic fins pelvic fin- the underside fins that serve as the "arms" of the shark dorsal fin-the top fin that is usually seen on the surface of water in shark attacks
yes===========================================================No, they don't. The knifefishes of the order Gymnotus, or South American knifefishes (electric eel, ghost knife fish, banded knife fish, etc.) have no dorsal or pectoral fins.There are about 150 known species.
Fin means flipper or flattened appendage on a fish. No one fin WW1
Fin whales have two pectoral fins and a dorsal fin.
No. Blue whales have mated with fin whales.
Yes, fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) are classified as Endangered.
In the summer fin whales migrate to cold waters and in the winter fin whales migrate to warm waters.
the dorsal fin
There are estimated to be 3,000 fin whales off California, Oregon and Washington.
Fin Whales are hunted in Greenland with a limit of 19 per year.Collisions with ships are an additional major cause of Fin Whale mortality.
Fin whales have been listed as endangered since the early 1970s. Fin whales populations in the North Atlantic, however, now number 53,000, close to its historic size.
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