The baleen plates of a blue whale may be up to 1 meter long. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The fact that the krill are strained out of the water by the baleen is a matter of processing - it comes after the whale has taken a bite. From Wordnik.com. [Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III] Reference
Many modern whale species use hair-like structures called baleen to filter tiny prey such as krill from seawater. From Wordnik.com. [National Geographic News] Reference
I need to use the word "baleen" in a sentence today. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
"baleen" or "whalebone" -- each plank being as much as eight or in rare cases twelve feet long. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
"baleen," fringed plates made of keratin - the same protein that forms our hair and fingernails. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
They screen plankton and plants through their baleen. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
The cachelot has no baleen but it furnishes spermaceti. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
This fossilized whale, probably a baleen, was 18 feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Fossilized Whale Discovered] Reference
Janjucetus throws new light on the evolution of baleen whales. From Wordnik.com. [Embryonic Recapitulation] Reference
Its contents, according to the labels, include samples of baleen. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
He has enormous teeth or tushes in the lower jaw, but has no baleen. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
We cannot forcibly restrain a baleen to question it, as you well know. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Those "teeth" make the shark look more like a baleen whale, actually. From Wordnik.com. [DAA-Dum] Reference
The whale's mouth and baleen -- hairlike fibers that filter food -- are visible. From Wordnik.com. [Hunters Return to the Sea] Reference
Greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
"It's tangled around her right fin and pretty much woven through her baleen, " I say. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
The development of whalebone (baleen) in the mouth of the whale is another difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
The energy cannon at the bow was purposely not aimed at the baleen, but it was manned. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
There are two varieties of the whale much sought for on account of the baleen they yield. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
Like all whales, humpbacks are mammals, and belong to the baleen whale suborder, mysticeti. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary] Reference
When we had got the baleen inboard, however, the more disagreeable work of "flensing" began. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Their control over the baleen had demonstrated a disturbing capacity for dangerous mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Ironically, the whales most in need of being on the ark are the largest, the huge baleen whales. From Wordnik.com. [How to make a snake - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Living baleen whales lack teeth and feed on minute organisms with their brush-like baleen filters. From Wordnik.com. [Science: Endeavor to Persevere] Reference
There is more plankton on this world than a million times as many baleen whales could ever consume. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Many baleen whales, feeding on zooplankton, were a natural part of the arctic ecosystems 400 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
Keeping my distance, I mark where the gill net has tangled in her mouth, caught no doubt across the baleen. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of the Humpback Whale]
The newborn rises up first, her baleen gleaming, her silver snout speckled with baby whiskers, her brown eye wide. From Wordnik.com. [Brenda Peterson: Whales Worth More Alive: Uphold the Moratorium Against Whale Hunting] Reference
By the end of the Eocene 33 million years ago modern toothed and baleen whales existed in virtually their modern form. From Wordnik.com. [Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt] Reference
The whale measured 18 feet long and was probably a baleen, according to Claude Guérin of Lyon's Université Claude Bernard. From Wordnik.com. [Fossilized Whale Discovered] Reference
Despite the absence of teeth, modern baleen whales retain copies of tooth-specific genes, such as enamelin, in their genomes. From Wordnik.com. [Science: Endeavor to Persevere] Reference
A tiny ivory otter, perched on his hind legs, thick fur ruffled from the water, looked at the room through gleaming baleen eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Fine and Bitter Snow]
Unlike toothed whales, such as sperm whales or orca, these baleen whales do not have highly developed sonar, and their eyesight is poor. From Wordnik.com. [Would a whale deliberately destroy a yacht?] Reference
Summer in the Gulf of Alaska meant fishing boats and baleen whales, both in large numbers, making noises and cluttering up sonar displays. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
OCEANSWhale of a Tale As Kermit might say, it's not easy being baleen -- and not just because orcas like Willy and Shamu hog the spotlight. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
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