Discover the biggest mammals in the animal kingdom. Look up and see our blue whale model, seemingly swimming with the other cetacean skeletons and replicas suspended from the ceiling. On the ground ...

The whale was stranded in Wexford Harbour in Ireland in 1891, ten years after the Museum opened. It was bought by the Museum and first went on display in the Mammal Hall in 1938, where it was ...

At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, ...

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic ... a postdoc at the National Museum of Natural History. They host the brain, the ...