The largest recorded Orca

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@GuateGojira , One of the posts earlier in the thread led me to this source which is  catalog of Russian museum specimens. Some of these include weight measurements taken upon captured specimens. There are two of these are for male killer whales caught in the Antarctic.

PARTIAL CATALOG OF CETACEAN OSTEOLOGICAL SPECIMENS IN RUSSIAN MUSEUMS 

1 - Skull; M, BL 7.12m, WT 6.9t, CB 11Ocm; coll. 17 Feb 1974 by V. V. Sukhovyershin in Bellinghausen Sea, Antarctica.

2 - Skull and 48 teeth; M, BL 7.6m, WT 7.2t, CB 113cm; coll. 8 Mar 1967 by E. G. Sazhinov in Weddell Sea. 

Since I lack an appendix for Mikhalev's data, I am making one for my own, based largely on the sources made passed around in this thread. I am only including the proper weighings and not estimates. I am also not including Tilikum since I can't be too sure about his actual weight when corresponding to his length. The only ones I have that are heavier than the 6,600kg whale cited by Yamada 2007 are the two whales I mentioned here and the 9.9-tonne specimen Reply