Hope (whale)

Hope is the skeleton of a juvenile female blue whale displayed in Hintze Hall, the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London. It measures 25.2 metres (83 ft) in length, consists of 221 bones, and weighs 4.5 tonnes.

Born around 1876, the whale lived for around 15 years before becoming trapped on a sandbar near Wexford Harbour, Ireland in March 1891 and being killed by a fisherman two days later. Its skeleton was sold to the Natural History Museum, where it was displayed in its Mammal Hall from 1934 before being moved to the museum's main Hintze Hall in 2017, replacing Dippy, a cast of a diplodocus skeleton.

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