fin whale

noun

: a baleen whale (Balaenoptera physalus) that may attain a length of over 70 feet (21 meters) and is found chiefly in subtropical to arctic and antarctic waters worldwide

called also finback

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The demise, revival, and demise again of the fin whale. —

Longreads, 25 Oct. 2024 Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology is using AI to let dead animals, like a cockroach and a fin whale skeleton, tell their own stories. —

Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024 But blue whales, humpbacks, and fin whales are on the endangered list, and the Northern right whale is just about extinct – only about 350 of them are left on Earth. —

David Pogue, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024 Webb and Payne’s original paper on acoustic herd theory demonstrated that fin whale vocalizations—low-frequency sounds that carry long distances—could theoretically travel an astonishing 430 miles in certain areas of the ocean. —

Joanna Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fin whale