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  2. Hope (whale) - Wikipedia

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    Hope is the skeleton of a blue whale displayed in the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London. A juvenile female blue whale was found by a fisherman Edward Wickham on 25 March 1891, stranded on a sand bar in Wexford Harbour , on the southeast coast of Ireland.

  3. Perucetus - Wikipedia

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    The 17–20-meter (56–66 ft) skeletal structure alone would have accounted for 5.3–7.6 t (5.2–7.5 long tons; 5.8–8.4 short tons), which is already two to three times the weight of the skeleton of a 25 m (82 ft) long blue whale. The weight estimates are based around the relation between skeletal and total body mass of modern mammals.

  4. Natural History Museum, London - Wikipedia

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    Whale skeleton, nicknamed Hope, in the Hintze Hall. The blue whale skeleton, Hope, that has replaced Dippy, is another prominent display in the museum. The display of the skeleton, some 82 feet (25 m) long and weighing 4.5 tonnes, was only made possible in 1934 with the building of the New Whale Hall (now the Mammals (blue whale model) gallery).

  5. Farewell Dippy the dinosaur -- London museum installs whale ...

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    London's Natural History Museum has installed a four-and-a-half-ton blue whale skeleton to tower over the heads of visitors.

  6. Beaty Biodiversity Museum - Wikipedia

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    The museum's signature piece is its 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale. The skeleton, housed in the museum's glass atrium, is Canada's largest blue whale skeleton, the "largest skeleton exhibit in the world suspended without external framework for support", and one of only 21 blue whale skeletons on public display worldwide.

  7. KOBO (whale) - Wikipedia

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    KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a 66-foot-long (20 m) juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March 1998. [ 1 ]

  8. New Bedford Whaling Museum - Wikipedia

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    The blue whale skeleton known as KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The museum is home to five fully articulated whale skeletons: a blue whale, a humpback whale, a sperm whale, and a pregnant mother and fetus North Atlantic right whale. All of the specimens came from animals that either died accidentally or by ...

  9. Blue Whale - AOL

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    “The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed ...