Whales & Dolphins Educational Posters & Charts
for ocean, water and ecological studies.

Jonah and the Whale, Giclee Print

The story of Jonah is from the Hebrew Old Testament, and repeated by Jesus in the New Testament.

God commands Jonah to visit the city of Ninevah and call upon them to repent and submit to God.

The commission from God strikes fear in Jonah, and thinking he can hide from God, boards a ship to escape. God stirs up a terrible storm and the sailors decide to throw Jonah overboard in order to save themselves.

A large fish swallows the floundering Jonah and he spends three days in its belly, finally praying and agreeing to go to Ninevah. God then has the great fish throw Jonah up on shore. The Hebrew for great fish was translated to whale.

Bottlenose Dolphin Poster Art and the Environment

Bottlenose Dolphin
Art and the Environment

Whaling and Sperm Whale, from 'Natural History of Mammals'. Giclee Print

Whaling and Sperm Whale, from 'Natural History of Mammals'.

• Did you know the sperm whale is the state animal of Connecticut?

Moby Dick or The White Whale, Giclee Print

Moby Dick or The White Whale

• more Herman Melville posters

Whale Rider, a 2002 New Zealand film about the tradition that the leader should be the first-born son — a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea who rode atop a whale from Hawaiki. However, the last of the line is the girl Pai and technically cannot inherit the leadership.

Constellation of Cetus the Whale, from ‘Atlas Coeletis’, 1729 Giclee Print John Flamstead

Cetus is a constellation in the northern sky and refers to a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ‘the whale’ today.

Cetus, located in the region of the sky known as the Water, is neighbors with other watery constellations such as Aquarius (water carrier), Pisces (fish), and Eridanus (river, described by Ptolemy as pouring from Aquarius).

• zodiac posters