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 ... and his closest surviving relative. She visited London with ...

Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain ... Staff stand in front of a blue whale model. In this photo, taken in the 1930s, ...

This blue whale skull ... known as the National Museum of Natural History. For more than four decades, the skull and model entertained visitors who came to marvel at a whale of such size that ...

The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen ... when she was a PhD student at the Natural History Museum in London. She aimed to collate ...

London’s museums are a vibrant ... South Kensington’s Natural History Museum captivates with its soaring blue whale skeleton and dinosaur exhibits, including a Velociraptor.

The famous diplodocus (which is not a real skeleton, but a cast) in the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum will be replaced by a blue whale skeleton in 2017. Britain was a land bridge ...