A 40-million-year-old fossilised whale previously thought to be the heaviest animal of all time is now thought to weigh less than a blue whale. The huge, 17-metre-long whale, which was believed to ...

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The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

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 ...

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the Perucetus colossus whale. Previously, the largest known animal in the world was the blue whale, weighing up to 180 tons and reaching 100 feet long. The blue whale's tongue alone is as heavy as an ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

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