Smithsonian Institution A female whale named Phoenix, nearly 50 feet long, will be the focal point of a new state-of-the-art Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).

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.

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

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 ...

The Maine State Museum is preparing to reopen with a centerpiece whale skeleton exhibit, marking a major step in its ...

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 ...

formerly known as the Alaska Museum of Transportation and Industry, secured permission from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to use the whale’s bones for a future articulated ...

A 10-meter-long stuffed specimen of a Baird’s beaked whale, the centerpiece exhibit ... was restored at a branch of the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.