The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) was a large cetacean, a whale, indigenous to planet Earth.
History and specifics
It was the largest of the baleen whales, and the largest animal ever to have inhabited Earth.
Humans once hunted blue whales for their meat, blubber and baleen.
In the year 1986, models of adult and calf blue whales were displayed in a glass case at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California. (TOS movie & novelization: The Voyage Home)
Appendices
Connections
| Earth cetacean species | |
|---|---|
| Baleen whales | blue whale • fin whale • gray whale • humpback whale • minke whale • right whale • sei whale |
| Toothed whales | Atlantic bottlenose dolphin • Baird's beaked whale • Cuvier's beaked whale • pilot whale • orca • Pacific bottlenose dolphin • pygmy sperm whale • sperm whale • Takaya's whale |
External links
- Blue whale article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Blue whale article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.