This two-year project is led by AHRC Early Career Research Fellow Dr Sophia Nicolov, who works closely with the Cetacea collection and the Principal Curator of Mammals, Richard Sabin, a marine mammal ...

In 1927 Museum staff commandeered trains to transport 126 false killer whales from Scotland to South Kensington. It's not the most conventional cargo - but staff specialising in cetacean strandings ...

A blue whale specimen, dating from 1936, from the Gulf of Mexico is part of a rare Smithsonian collection of whale fetuses. Maya Yamato, Smithsonian Institution For evolutionary biologists, whale ears ...

At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, and their relatives. Of the thousands of specimens in the collection, two ...