As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

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 for more than 120 years, but the legend of the day it arrived ...

So the team also collected the skeleton of the “mammoth whale,” as the newspapers ... at what is now known as the National Museum of Natural History. For more than four decades, the skull ...