Blue Whale Ornament

Description

This is one of a selection of specimens from Natural History are hand-printed onto fabric, hand-sewn on a backing fabric and suspended from a ribbon. Each specimen is a relief print, carved in linoleum. Celebrate your love of science this holiday season!

The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales (called Mysticeti).[3] At up to 32.9 metres (108 ft) in length and 172 metric tons (190 short tons)[4] or more in weight, it is the largest animal ever known to have existed.

The ornaments are roughly 15 cm (6 inches)across. The blue whale is shown in the upper three photos. The lower two photos show some of the other ornaments available in the Natural History collection.
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C'est un ornement scientific pour votre arbre de Noël: la balene bleue (Balaenoptera musculus). C'est un gravure sur tissue, fait à la main. L'ornement est peu près 15 cm (6 pouces). La balene est dans les trois premier photographs. Les autres photographs montrent d'autres ornements disponibles.

Added on Nov 04, 2009