Bowhead whale cranium

3D Model

Description: This is a 3D light structured surface scan of a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) registered in 1986.

This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Digital Collections Programme, to find out more visit www.nhm.ac.uk/digitalcollections

Comments: Bowhead whale is a baleen whale species found in Arctic waters in or around the pack ice.

Specimen number: NHMUK 1986.116

Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0020467) and specimen record on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.