“My conceptual model can explain the mystery of the missing calves ... "This new idea provides an alternative explanation for ...

It took four years, a shipwright and help from the British to create the blue whale model installed in the National Museum of Natural History. October 1996. Get our newsletter!

A MODEL of a 93-ft. Blue whale has just been completed in the Whale Hall of the British Museum (Natural History). It is constructed of plaster of Paris and cement on a wood and wire-netting ...

Unlike the model, the original blue whale skull was featured in the new show. But now the former object of celebration and wonder had transformed into a poignant symbol of loss.

Look up and see our blue whale model, seemingly swimming with the other cetacean skeletons and replicas suspended from the ceiling. On the ground examine extinct mammoths and giant elk and their ...

We have seen a blue whale give birth twice – once in 1911 and once in 1946, but out of all the blue whale sightings around the world, only a little over 3% of them include a mother and her calf.

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

The blue whale is not only currently the biggest animal on Earth, ... 3D model of the fleshed out skeleton of the new species, Perucetus colossus (estimated body length: ...

Out of all the blue whale sightings worldwide, mother-calf pairs make up just 3.1 percent. ... “My conceptual model can explain the mystery of the missing calves: ...