Baleen whale skull showing baleen plates, Nouamghar, Mauritania

Weathered whale vertebrae on Jougla Point near the old British Whaling Station at Port Lockroy on Weincke Island, Antarctica.

Blue whale, (Balaenoptera musculus), Biologist holdindg her hand next to a vertibra for size comparison, Monterey, California, USA

California Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) adult skeleton on the beach. San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja, Mexico. (rr)

Upper and lower jaw bones (+ one rib) of a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) at an old whaling station. BBC Broadcaster John Craven for scale. Snaefellsness Peninsular, Iceland.

The old British Whaling Station at Port Lockroy and the whalebones across the bay at Point Jougla near Weincke Island, Antarctica.

View of outside surface of baleen plates removed from a young Humpback whale which stranded, dead, on a beach. Cape Cod, USA.

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Woman measures (98) the lower right mandible (jawbone) of an adult bull Sperm Whale, in the mid-riff region of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico. Model released.

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) Eight-inch tooth from lower right mandible (jawbone) of an adult bull in the mid-riff region of the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), Mexico.

Whale Skeleton