Southern right whale cranium

3D Model

Description: This is a 3D light structured surface scan of a southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) collected in 1873 from New Zealand.

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

Comments: Southern right whale is a Southern Hemisphere baleen whale species with a circumpolar distribution.

Specimen number: NHMUK 1873.3.3.1

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.