When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...
Today, a piece of the stranded whale's baleen is on display at the National Museum of Natural History. The baleen refers to the mouth plates lined with bristles that are used to capture prey.
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 ...
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 ...
This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing ...
Though a humpback can easily fit a human inside its mouth, it is scientifically impossible for the whale to actually swallow a human once inside, according to a 2021 article from National ...
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.