A stately home has issued an appeal to reclaim bones taken as souvenirs from a 48-foot whale skeleton – described in the classic book Moby Dick. The sperm whale was taken to Burton Constable ...

According to the museum, it was the first time in 31 years for a whale carcass longer than 10 meters to be found in Osaka Bay since the 1990 discovery of a 19-meter-long finback.

To trace back the origins of the blue whale bones, Nicolov examined the records of what was on display at the British Empire Exhibition's pavilions. She uncovered a series of photographs of the ...