This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A series of meetings meant that I found ...

For the past three decades 8,000 pounds of fiberglass has been "sounding" from the ceiling in the Life in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). It is the most stupendous proxy ...

Long before he helped design a life-size blue whale exhibit for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Richard Ellis was enchanted with the ocean and the mysterious creatures that swam in ...

The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 metres in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, ...