Its skeleton was salvaged and studied in depth ... Today, a piece of the stranded whale's baleen is on display at the National Museum of Natural History. The baleen refers to the mouth plates ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

These whales' massive heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny ...

Salvaging its skeleton enabled scientists to define ... the National Museum of Natural History displays a piece of the stranded whale’s baleen—the bristle-lined mouth plates they use to ...

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders ...

Bryde's whales have up to 370 pairs of grey-coloured plates of baleen growing inside their upper jaws. The plates are made of keratin, a protein that also forms human hair and nails, and are used to ...