There’s a lot to consider when it comes to whale skeletons. When a whale carcass washes ashore or a whale dies on shore, there are a few things we consider before we rearticulate (or reassemble) the skeleton for display. We look at: The condition of …

Discover the largest animal ever to have lived in high resolution. Rotate and zoom in to the model below to learn more about the specimen. This 3D model of the Museum's blue whale skeleton was produced by our Imaging and Analysis Centre. Read more about how they scanned the biggest animal on the planet.

2020年7月10日 · Unlike most mammals, toothed whale (Odontoceti) skulls lack symmetry in the nasal and facial (nasofacial) region. This asymmetry is hypothesised to relate to echolocation, which may have evolved in the earliest diverging odontocetes.

2022年7月19日 · The most complete North Atlantic gray whale skeleton ever discovered, which was beached and then meticulously butchered by indigenous peoples more than 800 years ago, was found in the 1970s.

Along with the suspended skeletons, the Museum also displays the skull of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and the huge lower jaw of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). This jaw belonged to an animal '88-foot long', which far exceeds the known maximum size of the species today, suggesting that sperm whales may have been ...

2021年1月1日 · Frontal, nasal, and the supraoccipital part of the occipital bone form a greatly thickened part of the bowhead whale skull (Figure 9.2, Figure 9.3) that provides the structural basis for the animal’s ability to break through the thickened ice to create breathing holes.

2025年3月25日 · The skulls of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are distinguished by incomplete ossification of cranial sutures during their lifetime. We suggested suture ossification may correlate with ...

2020年8月3日 · Complete skulls and skeletons stretch right back to the earliest whales of 50 million years ago, and more fossils are dotted throughout whale history, right up to the living animals we know...

The yellow features in this 3-D reconstruction of a fin whale fetal skull represent the early developmental stages of ear bones, characteristics that are extremely rare, fragile and nearly impossible to study via traditional research methods.

2020年9月23日 · Using a combination of historical documents, traditional osteological analysis, and ZooMS to put together the jigsaw puzzle of whale bones at the MZS, we were able to reconstruct four largely complete skeletons and identify various additional skull …