The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

The whales' great scarcity and sheer size have always posed considerable problems for museums wanting to display full-size specimens. As A. E. Parr of the American Museum of Natural History rather ...

A series of perfectly-preserved humpback whale foetuses reveal how whales grow before they’re born. These seven whale foetuses show the development of humpback whales in the first few months of their ...

The American Museum of Natural History is perpetually crowded, but you'll face fewer crowds if you visit during a weekday in the late winter or spring. The American Museum of Natural History off ...

four carved whale figures and 16 human skulls. Boas decided to acquire it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he was a curator. He was driven by a concept known as “sal ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest ... a marine mammal specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The American public in the early 20th century was in the grips ...