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This is one big rabbit hole to tinker with......be warned!
The subject keeps popping up in multiple other threads and is so interesting to some that those threads end up getting de-railed.
Here is a starter:
The Tubercles on Humpback Whales' Flippers: Application of Bio-Inspired Technology
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/51/1/203/636829
The whale foetus and CT flipper imae is from the above research article.