carcass of a whale

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• Whale fall — is the term used for a whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/ rwb2103/whale/whalefallintro.html Whale fall intro ] ] Whale falls were first observed in the 1980s, with the advent of deep sea robotic… …   Wikipedia

• whale fall — n. A whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor and now supports a wide variety of marine organisms. Also: whalefall. Example Citations: Scripps scientists, in association with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, discovered the… …   New words

• whale — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cetacean; finback; blue, humpback, killer, sperm, sulphur bottom, or right whale; orca, rorqual, narwhal, blackfish, dolphin, porpoise, grampus; Moby Dick; informal, whopper. See size, animal. II… …   English dictionary for students

• Zuiyo-maru carcass — Carcass caught by the Zuiyō Maru. The Zuiyo maru carcass is a creature initially claimed to be a prehistoric plesiosaur that was caught by the Japanese fishing trawler Zuiyō Maru (瑞洋丸 …   Wikipedia

• Beached whale — A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. Beaching is often fatal for whales, as they become dehydrated and die. Some die when their lungs are suffocated under their own weight or drown when high tides… …   Wikipedia

• Exploding whale — Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when a dead sperm whale (originally reported as a gray… …   Wikipedia

• North Pacific right whale — North Pacific right whale[1] Si …   Wikipedia

• Killer whale — Orca redirects here. For other uses, see Orca (disambiguation). Killer whale[1] …   Wikipedia

• Beluga whale — White Whale redirects here. For other uses, see White Whale (disambiguation). Beluga[1] …   Wikipedia

• Pygmy beaked whale — Size comparison against an average human Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Beluga (whale) — Taxobox name = BelugaMSW3 Cetacea|id=14300105] status = NT status system = iucn3.1 status ref = [IUCN2008| assessors=Jefferson, T.A., Karczmarski, L., Laidre, K., O’Corry Crowe, G., Reeves, R.R., Rojas Bracho, L., Secchi, E.R., Slooten, E., Smith …   Wikipedia