A juvenile blue whale skeleton ( Kobo whale | KOBO ) hanging in the Jacobs Family Gallery at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

A new blue whale skeleton, named Kobo was suspended from the ceiling.

The blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales ( called Mysticeti ).

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

The blue whale is usually classified as one of eight species in the genus Balaenoptera ; one authority places it in a separate monotypic genus, Sibbaldus, but this is not accepted elsewhere.

DNA sequencing analysis indicates that the blue whale is phylogenetically closer to the sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis ) and Bryde's whale ( Balaenoptera brydei ) than to other Balaenoptera species, and closer to the humpback whale ( Megaptera ) and the gray whale ( Eschrichtius ) than to the minke whales ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis ).

Researchers working off Fiji believe they photographed a hybrid humpback / blue whale.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

In September 1692, Sibbald found a blue whale that had stranded in the Firth of Forth — a male 78-feet-long — which had " black, horny plates " and " two large apertures approaching a pyramid in shape ".

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

The skeleton of the killer whale is of the typical delphinid structure, but is more robust.

A whale skeleton discovered there in 1990 was proved to be a new whale species ( see Eobalaenoptera harrisoni ).

With the help of its sister city Bodenwerder, the birthplace of the Baron, the club amassed a number of " historical proofs " of presence of the Baron in Königsberg: an ancient silver thaler " returned " to Kaliningrad by Bodenwerder's mayor as a debt for a mug of beer drunk by Münchhausen, Order of Saint Anna issued to the Baron by Paul I of Russia for his " faultless service ", and the skeleton of the whale in whose belly the Baron was entrapped for a while.

Minke whale skeleton, Museum Koenig, University of Bonn.

The building features labs for biology, geology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics, a courtyard with a crystalline glass gazebo in the center, a Foucault pendulum designed by Alan Thorndike, as well as Gray whale skeleton named Willy.

Its initial theme of a general-purpose scenic and curiosity park led to one of its most famous attractions, a large whale skeleton, which had been washed up near the coast of The Needles in 1842, and is still a showpiece today.

A 30 foot-long skeleton of a juvenile gray whale, assembled by students from Ensenada, hangs from the ceiling.

On 6 September 2010 Karl Shuker announced that a hitherto-unknown photograph of Trunko had been discovered by German cryptozoologist Markus Hemmler on the website of the Margate Business Association, and Shuker recognised from this photo that Trunko had been nothing more than a globster, i. e. a massive, tough skin-sac of blubber containing collagen that is sometimes left behind when a whale dies and its skull and skeleton have separated from the skin and sunk to the sea bottom.

The skeleton of a Bowhead whale with the hind limb and pelvic bone structure circled in red.

* El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe — Is an interactive museum of science that resembles the skeleton of a whale.

A full whale skeleton is on display in the main atrium, as well as other numerous artifacts from Ikitsuki's history.

When she woke up the next morning, Canola realized the wind had created the music by blowing through partially rotted sinew still attached to a whale skeleton.

The Kotha Bastion contains a fine collection of sculptures, coins, inscriptions and copper plates and the skeleton of a whale.

The skeleton of a gray whale is visible in the background.

The whale skeleton was brought to Burton Constable, since as Lord Paramount of the Seigniory of Holderness, Sir Clifford was entitled to anything of interest that washed up on the foreshore.

This famous whale also came to the attention of Herman Melville, who published his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851: " at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton Constable by name, a certain Sir Clifford Constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale ... Sir Clifford's whale has been articulated throughout ; so that like a great chest of drawers, you can open and shut him, in all his long cavities — spread out his ribs like a gigantic fan — and swing all day upon his lower jaw.

Inside the whale skeleton in the episode, Bart finds the remains of Jonah.

But, perhaps the most important addition of the decade was the acquisition of a juvenile humpback whale skeleton, suspended in the Lagoda room.

Actin filaments are shown in red, microtubules in green, and the cell nucleus | nuclei are in blue. The cytoskeleton ( also CSK ) is a cellular scaffolding or skeleton contained within a cell's cytoplasm and is made out of protein.

Chicken | Chick embryo that was treated with methylene blue to stain the skeleton, then cleansed with 2 or 3 ethanol washes, and treated with methyl salicylate to make the surrounding Tissue ( biology ) | tissues transparent

( In Sketches by Boz, 1836, Charles Dickens described the earlier skeleton suit as "... one of those straight blue cloth cases in which small boys used to be confined, before belts and tunics had come in ...." added ).

Among the Reptilian remains obtained by the Yale College party during the past summer ( 1871 ) was the greater part of a skeleton of a small Hadrosaurus, discovered by the writer in the blue Cretaceous shale near the Smoky Hill River, in Western Kansas.