That’s because Rocha said the rare blue whale skeleton is actually leaking oil. KOBO, short for “King of the Blue Ocean,” has been on display at the museum for 24 years now.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The iconic blue whale at the Museum of Natural History is getting its annual cleaning. The entire 94-foot-long body of the whale gets dusted every nine months.

That’s got nothing on the bowhead whale skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum though, which is still dripping oil 160 years after it was collected.

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Long before he helped design a life-size blue whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Richard Ellis was enchanted with the ocean and the mysterious creatures that swam in its ...

NEW BEDFORD — The Whaling Museum will be enticing its guests with a new 3D short film featuring the return of the Blue Whale population. “I think it’s definitely something our audiences will ...

Krill, which are tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, form the basis of the blue whale's diet. A single adult whale can eat four tons of krill daily (National History Museum).

Blue Whales: Return of the Giants is included in the MODS Discovery Pass, an all-in-one ticket that includes Museum exhibitions, live science demonstrations and one IMAX documentary film.

Catoosa will start building a new visitors center at the Blue Whale during the first week of August. Interim City Manager Josh Brown said the city hopes to complete the center by May or June 2026 ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most ...

Mr. Ellis at the American Museum of Natural History, in front of the life-size blue whale he helped build, in New York in 2012. TONY CENICOLA/NYT ...