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sei whale

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sei whale

 or Rudolphi's rorqual

Swift species (Balaenoptera borealis) of baleen whale in the rorqual family. It is 40–50 ft (13–15 m) long and is bluish gray or blackish above and paler below. It has small flippers, about 50 short lengthwise grooves on its chest, and dark baleen with pale, silky, inner fringes. It inhabits oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic, migrating between cold and temperate summer waters and winter breeding grounds in warmer regions.



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Michelle Berman, assistant curator of vertabrae zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, examined the dead whale and said it appeared to be a female fin whale, or possibly a sei whale.
 
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