#whale

[weepingwidar]

David Shrigley (British, 1968) - I've Never Seen You (2020)

[oddarette]

The tide whale is so rarely documented due to how often it is mistaken for a rogue wave. They are relatively small, about the size of a dolphin. The only recounts of their songs have been from drowning survivors; described as a series of water droplets echoing off the well of a deep cavern.

[ihaveapproximately4bones]

[emilyaillustrates]

🌟a Bake-Kujira (or ghost whale) 🌟

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

There’s a Moby Dick joke somewhere in there but I can’t articulate it.

Edit: This one is getting a lot of traction. Understandable admittedly.

[bedupolker]

A couple backgrounds for a friend's project. Getting back into the swing of fully digital painting after.... yeesh it's been a few years at least.

[theonlyowen]

What if Captain Nemo spotted Moby Dick while cruising around in the Nautilus?