The blue whale can grow up to 30 m 98 ft long — around the same as a Boeing This also makes this species the Largest migrant in the animal kingdom. Watch and read about more record-breaking animals on our dedicated pages. It swallows them in great gulps of seawater before raising its tongue to its mouth, straining the briny liquid through baleen plates but retaining its prey. This unparalleled difference in size between predator and prey represents yet another natural record.
A sei whale can be recognized by its dark grey color and its irregular white markings on the front of the body. The humpback whale is one of the more distinctive whales species on the planet, and it is easily recognized thanks to its unique head shape and long pectoral fins. Humpback whales are also more likely to breach than most other species, and they spend a lot of time at the surface of the water.
This makes them easier to spot and photograph above water. Humpback whales are typically migratory, birthing in the winter and relying on fat stores through the journey. This is easy to do, because the large humpback whales can weigh a whopping 30 tons or more in maturity. Bowhead whales reside in the cold waters of the Arctic and Subarctic, and they can grow to a mammoth 59 feet 18 metes in length. Their weight, however, is even more impressive, with some males weighing in at nearly tons.
The right whale is actually a collection of three very similar whale species: The North Atlantic right whale, the Southern right whale and the North Pacific right whale. Each of these whales is characterized by their round bodies, blowholes in the shape of a V and very dark skin. An average right whale can grow to 60 feet 18 meters in length and weigh up to, or even slightly over, tons. The largest of the toothed whales is the sperm whale, one of the few whale species that can live in a range of environments and is therefore found in oceans across the world.
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