FIRST CHANCE TO STUDY SUCH A SPECIMEN IN 10 YEARS<\/p>\n
It has been a decade since the museum last had the opportunity to study a whale carcass found in Singapore waters.<\/p>\n
In 2015, the year the museum opened, the carcass of a sperm whale washed up near Jurong Island, the museum said. It was later dubbed Jubi Lee.<\/p>\n
Jubi Lee represented the first record of a sperm whale in Singapore\u2019s territorial waters, as well as the first confirmed record of the species in the coastal waters around Peninsular Malaysia, according to the museum.<\/p>\n
It had been on display in the museum\u2019s gallery since 2016, with the museum describing it as one of its centrepieces and “a treasured part of Singapore\u2019s natural heritage”.<\/p>\n
More than a century before Jubi Lee’s discovery, in 1907, the present National Museum of Singapore put on display the skeleton of a 13.4m-long blue whale that was found stranded near Melaka in 1892.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This specimen was formally gifted to the National Museum of Malaysia in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIRST CHANCE TO STUDY SUCH A SPECIMEN IN 10 YEARS It has been a decade since the museum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[20233,64,63,100539,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-149338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-lee-kong-chian","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}