What is Rorqual?
{{Taxobox | name = Rorquals | image = Humpback whale with her calf.jpg | image_caption = [[Humpback Whale]], ''Megaptera novaeangliae'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Cetacea]] | subordo = [[Mysticeti]] | familia = '''Balaenopteridae''' | familia_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1864 | subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]] | subdivision = ''[[Balaenoptera]]''<br /> ''[[Humpback Whale|Megaptera]]'' }} '''Rorquals''' are the largest group of [[baleen whale]]s, with nine species in two genera. They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the [[Blue Whale]], which can reach 150 tonnes, and another that reaches 70 tons; even the smallest of the group, the [[Northern Minke Whale]], reaches 9 tonnes. {{wikispecies|Rorqual}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Baleen whales]]