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How many bones are in the skeleton of a blue whale?

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A whale's skeleton contains a skull, a spine and a rib cage, plus the bones that make up its flippers. The skeleton inside a whale's flipper looks like a version of a human hand; containing a shoulder, upper arm bone, lower arm bones, wrist bones and phalanges, or finger-type bones. read more

The number of bones in whales depends on its length. Blue Whale, being the largest, has the longest vertebral column. A Blue Whale has 356 bones in its body. read more

The number of bones varies from one species of whale to another and is dependent, in part, on the length of the whale's spine. Sperm whales contain 164 bones, while the blue whale, the largest animal on earth, has 356 bones. read more

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