Rorqual

Rorqual lower jaws are immense, beam-like bones that bow outwards along their length.

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

Rorqual lower jaws are immense, beam-like bones that bow outwards along their length.

From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006

Rorqual baleen plates number between 219 to 475 in each side of the jaw (the number of plates is highly variable within species, with sei whales alone having between 219 to 402), and each plate ranges in length from 20 cm (in the minkes) to 1 m (in the blue).

From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006

Rorqual baleen plates number between 219 to 475 in each side of the jaw (the number of plates is highly variable within species, with sei whales alone having between 219 to 402), and each plate ranges in length from 20 cm (in the minkes) to 1 m (in the blue).

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

Eventually, Rorqual Maru becomes controlled by the members of the Hive and must be reclaimed by the renegade band of Outsiders consisting of Trilobite, Larry, Big Har, Drum, and a renegade sex-machine clone of Larry Deever named ARNOLD.

REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass 2005

(One example alone - Rorqual Maru does not "become washed ashore" - he begins the book half-buried in a sandbar and subsequently frees himself.)

REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass 2005

With these people Larry & Har meet the plankton rake Rorqual Maru and so begin the voyages of the Godwhale, where Larry Dever continues his quest to regain his lost humanity.

REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass 2005

Trilobite meets up with outside (and underwater) dwellers and, since it refers to the whale as deity, Rorqual Maru is offered to them as a God.

REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass 2005

Meanwhile the cyborg harvester whale known as Rorqual Maru, whose purpose is to serve mankind, becomes washed ashore while mankind has evolved into the Hive society and moved underground.

REVIEW: The Godwhale by T.J. Bass 2005

" "To the Rorqual Station, and the reefs by which it kept company.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980