The skeleton of a rorqual whale lies in the sand along the shoreline of northern Namibia. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Those who remain are Namibia’s last nomads, and they have outlasted most other attempts to populate the desert. This part of the country is known as the Skeleton Coast, a none-too-subtle ...

A stately home has issued an appeal to reclaim bones taken as souvenirs from a 48-foot whale skeleton – described in the classic book Moby Dick. The sperm whale was taken to Burton Constable ...

The whale bones were first collected by a group of UCSC students and staff on Pescadero Beach in 1979, and in 1985, the skeleton was reassembled and mounted to steel supports at Long Marine Lab.