Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 13, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 February 1939 — Whales Named for Appearance [ARTICLE]

Whales Named for Appearance

i The bottlenose wffiaie and the humpback whale are named for their appearance, but the largest creature that ever lived on earth, bigger than elephant or prehistoric monster,- is the blue whale or Sibbald's Rorqual, named after the Scottish naturalist, Sibbald, who first described it. It sometimes exceeds one hundred feet-