SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 -- A baleen whale carcass discovered in waters near Tanjong Pagar is now being studied by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM), its first specimen of this kind in a decade.

The museum said yesterday it was alerted by the National Parks Board on September 6 to the carcass, which later drifted towards the Marina Bay Cruise Centre on September 12, CNA reported.

To prevent it from being swept out to sea, the museum worked with Singapore Salvage Engineers to secure and retrieve the remains over two days.

The whale, identified as a rorqual of the Balaenoptera genus, measured about 6.3m in length and weighed an estimated six tonnes.

The specimen was incomplete and in an advanced stage of decomposition, makin...