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Literally – its skeleton is dripping oil ... “They didn't get all the oil out though." Oil? That’s right – whales are oily.

Work is under way to dismantle and move a 113-year-old whale skeleton from a maritime museum to allow for refurbishment work to take place. The juvenile North Atlantic right whale, the largest ...

Driggsby, the giant skeleton, has been put in storage while renovation work is carried out Museum staff have spent the week painstakingly taking down a 46ft (14m) fin whale skeleton ahead of ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Those who have stopped by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have more than likely marveled over the ...

Bryde's whales are still found in Thailand's waters. Researchers in Thailand have found an almost perfectly preserved whale skeleton believed to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. The 39-foot ...

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 ...

The carcass of a whale found in Hong Kong waters will be buried on Monday but its skeleton will be used for research purposes later, the government has revealed. The Agriculture, Fisheries and ...