Search

Showing results for

Content type

Article Type

Topics

Tags

Blue whale skull being installed at National Museum of Natural History.
Article

When Did Today’s Whales Get So Big?

Read the Full Article
This photo provides a small glimpse of the amazing variety of whale skulls and skeletons available for study at the Smithsonian.
Photo

Whale Collections

View Image
A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix.
Photo

Painting the Model of Phoenix

View Image
Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
Article

Solidifying the Dolphin Family Tree

Read the Full Article
Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
Article

New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

Read the Full Article
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
Article

At STRI, No Whales Yet, But There Are Fossil Sea Cows...

Read the Full Article
a painting of a ship on a plate of baleen
Article

The Story of Stashed Whale Baleen

Read the Full Article
Gabor Szathmary secures one of the plaster jackets containing a fossil "toothed" mysticete that was excavated on Vancouver Island.
Article

Whale fossils on the mainland, and into a CT scanner

Read the Full Article
A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
Article

A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

Read the Full Article
Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
Slideshow

A Tale of a Right Whale

See the Full Slideshow
Fossil Whale Digsite at Cerro Ballena, Chile
Article

The Whale Graveyard Whodunit

Read the Full Article
Smithsonian researchers eat a meal in preparation for a fossil excavation
Slideshow

A Squalodontid Success

See the Full Slideshow