A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

So the team also collected the skeleton of the “mammoth whale,” as the newspapers ... at what is now known as the National Museum of Natural History. For more than four decades, the skull ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

The Natural History Museum has been digitizing its collections for a number of years. Due to the size of its collections (25 million records representing 5.9 million specimens and rising), there are ...

The San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego have partnered with researchers at the Florida Atlantic University to scan the skeleton of a rare endangered marine mammal, the vaquita.

The museum has never had anything like a whale, Grogan said. But he hopes it will become the beginning of a natural history exhibition ... the future articulated skeleton display and leaving ...

The Otis Booth Pavilion now welcomes visitors into the museum from the north with a six-story light-filled glass entrance, featuring a stunning, 63-foot-long fin whale skeleton. Twelve new ...

A humpback whale which washed up on a beach north of Aarhus earlier this month is to be dissected in public by researchers.

The Natural History Museum of Utah exhibit “Orcas: Our Shared Future” will be open until April 20. The exhibition is included ...

Salvaging its skeleton enabled scientists ... Today, the National Museum of Natural History displays a piece of the stranded whale’s baleen—the bristle-lined mouth plates they use to capture ...