This World Whale Day, take a look inside of the National Museum of Natural History’s whale bone repository. Emma Saaty. February 17, 2023. Get our Newsletter! Get our Newsletter!

The blue whale may no longer be the largest animal ever. The 37-million-year-old fossil bones were so large, experts thought they were boulders.

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

A journalist films a whale skeleton during a press tour at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, ahead of its reopening to ...

The National Museum of Natural History's new pavilion will be open to the public in 2029 with a majestic sperm whale specimen poised to captivate visitors with the wonders of the natural world ...

The National Museum of Brazil ... In the staircase courtyard, a 15m-long skeleton of a sperm whale found in 2014 in Ceará and donated to the museum in 2022 has been suspended.

The 47-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November, drawing hundreds of visitors and becoming a citywide phenomenon, has found a permanent home at a Wasilla museum. Remains ...