A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

The American Museum of Natural History has been sending research expeditions ... It takes three days to clean the museum’s blue whale model. The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live ...

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 ...

New York's American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers' Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers' Washing House was removed ...

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 ...

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 ...

when whales went from land to sea,” Nicholas Pyenson, the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, DC, says in a press release.

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 ...