: a widely distributed dark gray baleen whale (Balaenoptera borealis) that has a ridge on the top of the head and may reach a length of nearly 60 feet (18 meters)
called also sei
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On Saturday, May 4, MSC Cruises' MSC Meraviglia docked at the Port of Brooklyn, which is where the animal — identified as a mature female sei whale by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society — was discovered.
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Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
The roughly 44-foot-long sei whale was towed to shore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, for a necropsy, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
According to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, sei whales eat 2,000 pounds of fish and plankton per day.
—CBS News, 8 May 2024
In a study published last week in the journal Nature, scientists studied three larynxes from humpback, minke and sei whales that had died after becoming stranded.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
By the 1920s, humpbacks were scarce, so the industry began targeting blue whales and then fin and sei whales.
—Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
Yet for all scientists have learned about these charismatic leviathans, no one knows how baleen whales (a group that includes humpback, blue, fin and sei whales, among others) find their food in the first place.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Blue, bowhead, fin and sei whale populations are also growing globally, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
—Eric Bender, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
The sei whale, a somewhat mysterious type of whale that prefer to live in temperate waters in the mid-latitudes, was not yet mature, marine mammal biologists say.
—oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
The roughly 44-foot-long sei whale was towed to shore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, for a necropsy, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
According to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, sei whales eat 2,000 pounds of fish and plankton per day.
—CBS News, 8 May 2024
In a study published last week in the journal Nature, scientists studied three larynxes from humpback, minke and sei whales that had died after becoming stranded.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
By the 1920s, humpbacks were scarce, so the industry began targeting blue whales and then fin and sei whales.
—Douglas Main, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
Yet for all scientists have learned about these charismatic leviathans, no one knows how baleen whales (a group that includes humpback, blue, fin and sei whales, among others) find their food in the first place.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
Blue, bowhead, fin and sei whale populations are also growing globally, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
—Eric Bender, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
The sei whale, a somewhat mysterious type of whale that prefer to live in temperate waters in the mid-latitudes, was not yet mature, marine mammal biologists say.
—oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
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