The blue whale is suspended from the Museum's ceiling The animal's connection to this building ... and Wickham eventually killed the animal when he plunged an improvised harpoon under one of the ...

The blue whale possesses a small dorsal fin near the rear of its body and pectoral flippers (up to 20 feet long) to aid its maneuvering. It relies heavily on its enormous rubbery tail, or fluke ...

A blue whale’s heart can beat as few as two times a minute ... It required attaching electrodes sitting atop suction cups to the behemoth’s body at exactly the right spot—just behind the left flipper.