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 ...

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 ...

LONDON — On Monday 22 April, activists staged a protest at the Natural History Museum ... underneath the blue whale skeleton which hangs from the ceiling of the museum’s main hall.

or retrieved from the stomach of sperm whales, so they tend to be in quite poor condition,“ Jon Ablett, mollusks curator at the London Natural History Museum, who led preservation efforts ...