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

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.

* Kobo whale, a blue whale skeleton

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

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

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

* Offshore: A third population of killer whales in the northeast Pacific was discovered in 1988, when a humpback whale researcher observed them in open water.

A captive killer whale at MarineLand discovered it could regurgitate fish onto the surface, attracting sea gulls, and then eat the birds.

He crossed that point, following the sound of thunder, and discovered the spectacle of the Thunderbird seizing and dropping the whale.

After studying numerous fossil skulls off the shore of South Africa, researchers discovered the absence of functional maxillary teeth in all South African fossil ziphiids, which is evidence that suction feeding had already developed in several beaked whale lineages during the Miocene.

Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that by treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine The industry boomed (" jute weaver " was a recognised trade occupation in the 1901 UK census ), but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970 due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.

Hubbs ' beaked whale ( Mesoplodon carlhubbsi ) was initially thought to be an Andrews ' beaked whale when discovered by ichthyologist Carl Hubbs ; however, it was named in his honor when it was discovered to be a new species.

In 1954, Japanese cetologist Munesato Yamada published accounts of a " rare porpoise " discovered in 1952 by whale hunters working from Honshū.

From 2007-2009, an expert from Cornell University did an experiment listening in on the acoustics of the Harbor Estuary, where, to the astonishment of many, he discovered at least six species of whale singing to each other ... less than 20 miles from where the Statue of Liberty stands, just past the Verrazano Bridge where the water gets deeper.

In the early 21st century a scientific experiment is carried out in Sydney, Australia to recreate a recently discovered ancient whale, or cetacean, using preserved DNA.

* Ambulocetus, or the " walking whale ," was discovered by NEOMED anatomy professor Hans Thewissen.

Over 30 previously unknown species have been discovered at whale falls.

A whale fall was first observed by marine biologists led by University of Hawaii oceanographer Craig Smith in 1987, discovered accidentally by the submersible Alvin using scanning sonar at in the Catalina Basin.

It was during this era that Captain Charles Melville Scammon discovered a prolific gray whale breeding lagoon which became a choice hunting ground for American and European whalers.

Cetyl alcohol was discovered in 1817 by the French chemist Michel Chevreul when he heated spermaceti, a waxy substance obtained from sperm whale oil, with caustic potash ( potassium hydroxide ).

In mid-1980, there were three gray whale sightings in the eastern Beaufort Sea, placing them further east than their known range at the time.

South Korea's envoy to the summit, Kang Joon-Suk, said that consumption of whale meat " dates back to historical times " and that there had been an increase in the minke whale population since the ban took place in 1986.

A whale came and ate until there was no corn left and then told Sulemani that he was still hungry and that there were 70, 000 more in his tribe.

Eden's Deputy Commissioner, Major A. G. Duff, sent a Mr. Duke, one of his assistants, to Thaybyoo Creek, between the Sittang and Beeling rivers, on the Gulf of Martaban, where he found a 37-ft whale, which had stranded there in June 1871 after swimming more than twenty miles up the creek — it was said to have " exhausted itself by its furious struggles " to get free and " roared like an elephant " before finally expiring.

Prior to 2006, there had only been two confirmed sightings of Bryde's whale in the eastern North Pacific north of Baja California -- one in January 1963, only a kilometer off La Jolla ( originally misidentified as a fin whale ), and another in October 1991 west of Monterey Bay.

While there are no reliable historical population estimates, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9 % a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales ( especially the blue whale ) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and removal of important competitive forces.

The largest confirmed individual had a length of and a weight of more than, and there are unconfirmed reports of considerably larger whale sharks.

The rapid growth in this area has been attributed to the relatively dense population of Humpback Whales, whose acrobatic behavior such as breaching ( jumping out of the water ) and tail-slapping thrilled observers, and the close proximity of whale populations to the large cities there.

As of 2011, an expert from Cornell University has recorded the vocalizations of six whale species including the humpback, the fin whale, and the massive blue whale within close proximity of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the lower portion of New York Harbor and there is at least one company offering marine life tours out of The Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.

In the beginning there were five tribal societies that represented the elk hunter, the whale hunter, the fisherman, the weather predictor, and the medicine man.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were many irons in use which were heated by a fuel such as kerosene, ethanol, whale oil, natural gas, carbide gas ( acetylene ) as with carbide lamps, or even gasoline.

Andrews ' beaked whale has never been hunted, and there are no records of it being caught in fishing gear.

However, there was a considerable debate as to whether the whale belonged in the genus Mesoplodon or not.

The next major development happened when a paper had shown there were actually six remains of the whale, including a complete female with a fetus found in the Maldives in 2000.

For example, the Whale has a tiny throat from a swallowed mariner who tied a raft in there to block the whale from swallowing others.

However, there are polynyas in the Arctic, which are free of ice owing to the pressure of currents on either side, and such places do provide refuge for some species, like the walrus and the bowhead whale.

Ordinarily, however, the Melon-head is found beyond the continental shelf between 20 ° S and 20 ° N. Hawaii and Cebu, in the Philippines, are good sites for seeing the whale because the continental shelf there is narrow.

A particularly fine, talismanic, whale bone fishook of the 18th century was found there and is now in the Otago Museum.