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An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix that was used to develop a life size model for the Smithsonian shows the location of scars on her mouth from entanglements with fishing gear.
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Phoenix: Mouth Scarring

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The fringed baleen plates are easy to observe as this North Atlantic right whale skims the water’s surface while it feeds.
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Baleen in Action

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Whalers hunted right whales for baleen, which was used in a variety of commercial products such as umbrellas and whips.
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Ad for Whale Baleen Umbrellas

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This is North Atlantic right whale #3333 who was spotted with fishing gear trailing from his mouth during an aerial survey off the coast of Georgia on January 29, 2008.
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Whale Entanglement

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A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix.
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Painting the Model of Phoenix

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Nick Pyenson points to a skull and skeleton of a fossil whale.
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An Ancient Whale Skeleton, Unexcavated

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
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Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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A beluga whale
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Baby Beluga

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Ancient sea cow vertebra found in the Gatun Formation in Central America, Panama
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Ancient Sea Cow Vertebra

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A Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) poses in the waters off Acadia National Park in Maine. 
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Grey Seal Strikes a Pose

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A walrus sits on top of ice.
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One Hundred Names for Sea Ice

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Yankee Whalers: An 1856 Currier & Ives print shows whalers harpooning a right whale.
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The “Right” Whale to Hunt

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