Cetacean Collection

Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale

Physeter macrocephalus, Sperm whale tooth
Sperm whale tooth

Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The Natu
Stuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted

Cetiosaurus
A sauropod dinosaur which grew up to 60 feet long. It lived about 160 to 170 million years ago in the Midlands and Southern England, during the Upper Juassic perid. Painting by Neave Parker

Mesoplodon bidens, Sowerbys beaked whale
Plate 12 The Diodon of Sowerby. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol

Physeter catodon and Hyperoodon ampullatus
Sperm whale and northern bottlenose whale. Plate 45 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Delphinus delphis, short-beaked common dolphin
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Sperm whale and narwhal
Sperm whale or cachalot, Physeter macrocephalus, vulnerable 1, and narwhal or narwhale, Monodon monoceros, near threatened 2

Harbour porpoise, beluga and northern bottlenose whale
Harbour porpoise, Phocaena phocaena 1, beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas 2, and northern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus 3

Sperm or trump whale, Physeter macrocephalus 1, 2, vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802

Fin whale, bottlenose dolphin and bottle-nosed whale
Fin whale or rorqual, Balaenoptera physalus, endangered 1, bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus 2, and northern bottle-nosed whale, Hyperoodon ampullatus 3

CURRIER and IVES. Capturing the whale. Litography

Delphinus doris, plate 20
Illustration of the skull of Delphinus doris taken from The Lizards of Australia and New Zealand by John Edward Gray (1800-1875)

Rough-toothed dolphin skull with ink scrimshaw
Skull of a rough-toothed dolphin, a species that lives deep in tropical waters.The skull, believed to date back to 1850, has been decorated with ink by sailors in scrimshaw

Monodon monoceros, narwhal and Delphinapterus leucas, beluga
Plate 47 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Lagenorhynchus obscurus, dusky dolphin
Delphinus fitzRoyi. Plate from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol. 1 Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

The Soosoo of the Ganges, a river dolphin
Line drawing, plate 28 from the Naturalists Library volume XXV11 by Robert Hamilton, 1836

Early whale skull of Pakicetus inachus
52 million year old specimen of Pakicetus inachus, an early whale from the Eocene period, Chorlakki, Pakistan

Prosqualodon davidi, skull cast
Cast of the cranium of Prosqualodon davidi from the early Miocene of Tasmania, Australia (original skull no longer exists)

Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus.. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany

Basilosaurus (Zeuglodon), extinct genus of cetacean from the Eocene.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F. John from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg

Diphyllobothrium polyrugosum, tapeworm
Discovered inside a 3.8 metre killer whale washed up on a beach in Cornwall in 1978

Embalmed whale on tour in England, 1931
A 45 foot whale, the largest ever seen in England, which weighs more than 20 tons, is on a tour of England. It was caught off the coast of Norway and embalmed by Mr

Homeward Bound
Illustration (p.531) from Charles Darwins Journal of Researches, first illustrated edition 1890

Whales and their relatives
Poster advertising Whales and their relatives exhibition which opened in 1984

Blue Whale Hall
View of Blue Whale Hall, Mammal Gallery, Gallery 24, Life Galleries at The Natural History Museum, London

Beached whales alive in a Cornish village, 1932
The people of Perranporth, a village not far from Newquay, Cornwall, have just had the surprise of their lives. Eight whales have been found on the beach washed up during a gale

The Modern Mrs Jonah
Eric the Whale at Olympia. Eric, the huge 65-ton whale which arrived at Olympia yesterday from America, was on view there this morning for the first time

Sketch of Dolphins by Edward Wilson
Plate one from Edward Wilson sTerra Nova sketch book showing three dolphins

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Globicephala melas, long-finned pilot whale

Magyarosaurus & Cetiosaurus oxoniensis
Magyarosaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (about 70 mya) of Transylvania. Cetiosaurus an early sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England (170 - 160 mya)

Orcinus orca, orca
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Lagenorhynchus albirostris, Delphinus delphis & Tursiops tru
White-beaked dolphin, short-beaked common dolphin & common bottlenose dolphin. Plate 50 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Huso huso, beluga sturgeon
Plate 10 from Fishes of Economic Importance of the USSR by Lev Semenovich Berg and others (1949)

Cetiosauriscus stewarti
A fossil front left foot belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale and Balaenoptera physalus
Plate 43 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Osedax mucofloris, North sea marine worm
Osedax mucofloris is also known as the bone-eating snot-flower worm. The remarkable whalebone-eating polychaete worm, shown here dissected from a Minke whale bone that was recovered off the west

Phocoena phocoena, common porpoise
Plate 19 Cape Porpoise. Hand-coloured engraving of a drawing by James Hope Stewart (1789-1856), from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 12 Whales, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine

Cetiosauriscus stewarti fossil teeth
Fossil teeth belonging to the Cetiosauriscus, a Sauropod dinosaur, discovered in Peterborough, England. It dates back 158 million years

Whale heart
A freeze dried specimen of a Whales heart, thought to be from an immature Sperm Whale. Held in the Natural History Museums Department of Zoology. Approximately 1 metre in length

Orcaella brevirostris, Irrawaddy dolphin
Photograph of the dorsal view of the skull of an Irrawaddy dolphin

Sousa teuszii, Atlantic Hump-backed Dolphin skull

Orcinus orca gladiator, orca gladiator
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Inside the Natural History Museums Mammal and Whale Gallery
Partial views of the skeleton of a bowhead whale (top) and a sperm whale (bottom), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

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