Wales population
- where is whales
- where is wales
- where is wales in the uk
- where is wales on the map
Is wales a country.
Whale
Informal group of large marine mammals
This article is about a marine mammal. For other uses, see Whale (disambiguation).
"Whales" redirects here. Not to be confused with Wales.
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquaticplacentalmarine mammals.
As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e.
Wales capital
all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates.
Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged about 54 million years ago. The two parvorders of whales, baleen whales (Mysticeti) and toothed whales (Odontoceti), are thought to have had their last common ancestor around 34 million years ago.
Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae (the rorquals), Balaenidae (right whales), Cetotheriidae (the pygmy right whale), and Eschr
- where is wales located in the world
- where is wales in england