Until now, the blue whale was widely considered to be the ... Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist at the Smithsonian National ...

That is why the huge creature that now awes visitors in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History-the second blue whale to be displayed there in this century-is not a stuffed whale.

In 2021, researchers identified a new whale species and are now scrambling to save their natural habitat By Danna Staaf This adult Rice's whale skull at the National Museum of Natural History is ...

The whale after it stranded in 1891. This is one of very few images of the whale alive that survive. Image: National Museum of Ireland. The group beat the whale with metal bars in a crude attempt to ...

A massive dead whale washed onto the North Carolina shore, drawing thousands to a beach 97 years ago.

It made international headlines last year. What does a scientific dissection of the world's rarest whale involve?

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity, sheds ...

(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Scientists suspect that this gray whale is the same that was first spotted floating near the rock wall at the USS Hornet Museum on Thursday morning, but they have ...

Thousands of people flocked to see Trouble the whale in 1928, North Carolina historians said. Courtesy of NC Museum of Natural Sciences A massive dead whale washed onto the North Carolina shore ...