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.

Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ...

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 ... few images of the whale alive that survive. Image: National ...

Some of the museum's highlights include replicas of giant whales and other marine ... The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National ... prospecting for whales farther to the east and reported several new bone piles—fresh clues to one of natural history's great puzzles.

Whales’ skulls are one of their crowning oddities. Skulls in general are a paleontological treasure trove, explains paleontologist and macroevolutionary ecologist Ellen Coombs, a postdoc at the ...

The juvenile fin whale washed ashore on the Anchorage mud flats in November and drew thousands of visitors. It’s still there.

On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History takes ... 135-tonne blue whale, an astonishing ...