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Category:Rorquals

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Articles relating to the rorquals (family Balaenopteridae), the largest group of baleen whales. It contains nine extant species in two genera. They include the largest known animal that has ever lived, the blue whale, which can reach 180 tonnes (200 short tons), and the fin whale, which reaches 120 tonnes (130 short tons); even the smallest of the group, the northern minke whale, reaches 9 tonnes (10 short tons).

Subcategories

This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.