Explore a few exciting discoveries by museum researchers that you may have missed over the past few months Erin Wunderlich A pair of humpback whales feed in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine ...
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The world's only taxidermied blue whale has a scandalous secret
In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued-instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for ...
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is giving visitors a chance to spend the night and sleep under the iconic blue whale. Organizers announced the return of "A Night at the Museum: ...
The Natural History Museum in London holds a special place in the heart of everyone who has visited. From its stunning ...
In 1871, a naturalist aboard the U.S.S. Polaris collected scientific specimens — and possibly poisoned the ship’s captain Chihiro Kai An 1880 portrait of Emil Bessels, the surgeon and chief scientist ...
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‘Unusually Complete’ Small Baleen Whale Fossils Excavated by Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
It’s a whale of a discovery. Literally. A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) recently excavated the skull and other fossilized bones of a ...
Measuring over 30sq.km with an average depth of 10.9m, Twofold Bay is the third deepest natural harbour in the Southern ...
Acknowledgements -- Prologue by Peter K.L. Ng -- Preface -- Temenggong Ibrahim's coins and the founding of the Raffles Museum -- Laying the foundations 1876-86 -- The Halcyon years 1887-1926 -- From ...
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