Phoenix, a life-size model of a North Atlantic right whale, at the center of the new Sant Ocean Hall, 2008 Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution A female whale named Phoenix, nearly 50 feet ...

The Smithsonian's first life-size museum whale ... Friello remembers that the blowhole and other parts of the blue whale model had to be recast again and again. Kellogg often explained that ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the combined weight of thousands of people.

The whale was stranded in Wexford Harbour in Ireland in 1891, ten years after the Museum opened. It was bought by the Museum and first went on display in the Mammal Hall in 1938, where it was ...