When given the opportunity to name something, best believe humanity is going to take that chance to be as amusing as possible. We named a polar research ship “ Boaty McBoatface ”, after all. With that same energy, people have now officially given new names to a group of North Atlantic right whales, and there’s some absolute corkers, from Pencil to Brussels Sprouts. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

North Atlantic right whales are one of the most endangered of all the large whale species, and as such, researchers keep a close eye on them. When a new one is born or is seen for the first time, it’s added to North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog, and assigned a four-digit catalog number.

Those catalog numbers have their mer

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