That’s because Rocha said the rare blue whale skeleton is actually leaking oil. KOBO, short for “King of the Blue Ocean,” has been on display at the museum for 24 years now. Rocha explained ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

Find how Ms. Blue, the 87-foot-long blue whale skeleton, at UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center is being carefully ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

FORT BRAGG, CA., 1/28/25 — The bones of a 73-foot blue whale are stored in a barn in Mendocino, awaiting their permanent home ...

The whale skeleton measured about 3.50 meters in length and was largely complete. From an area of approximately six square meters, the team recovered the skull with teeth, the shoulder blade ...

a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging skeletons but we had many different skulls, rib bones, vertebrae of not only marine mammals but terrestrial ...

The exhibition Timed to coincide with the installation of the skeleton of a young blue whale in the museum’s main entrance hall (replacing the iconic Diplodocus skeleton cast), the exhibition ...

A new project is underway to give Ms. Blue another life, this time enabling her to teach the community about the power of ...