Toothed whale -- The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) form a suborder of the cetaceans. As the name suggests, the suborder is characterized by having ... > full article

Porpoise -- The porpoises are small cetaceans of the family Phocoenidae; they are related to whales and dolphins. They are distinct from dolphins, although the word "porpoise" has been used to refer to any small ... > full article

Baleen whale -- The baleen whales, also called whalebone whales or great whales, form a suborder of the order cetacea. The distinguishing feature between this suborder and the toothed whales is that baleen whales ... > full article

Whale song -- Whale song is the sound made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the ... > full article

Sei Whale -- The Sei Whale is a large baleen whale, and as such is one of the largest animals in the world. Following large-scale hunting of Sei Whales in the Southern Ocean during middle part of the twentieth ... > full article

Bowhead Whale -- The Bowhead Whale, also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a marine mammal of the order Cetacea. Bowhead Whales are the only baleen whales that spend their entire lives in and around ... > full article

Dolphin -- Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are thought to be descendants of terrestrial mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order. Modern dolphin skeletons have two small rod shaped pelvic bones ... > full article

Evolution of cetaceans -- The cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are descendants of land-living mammals, and remnants of their terrestrial origins can be found in the fact that they must breathe air from the surface; ... > full article

Whale -- Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic mammals, members of the order Cetacea. Like all mammals, whales breathe air into lungs, are warm-blooded, feed their young milk from mammary ... > full article

Gray Whale -- The Gray Whale or Grey Whale, more recently called the Eastern Pacific Gray Whale, is a whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 15 meters, a ... > full article

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