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Blue Whale bones await their permanent home in Fort Bragg
The bones of a 73-foot blue whale are stored in a barn in Mendocino, awaiting their permanent home in the Ocean Science ...
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World’s rarest whale had never been dissected — until now. Here’s what was discovered
Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered in 1874 after a jaw bone was found in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. Since then, just a handful of specimens have been found ...
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Museum of whale skeletons destroyed in fire took decades to build
a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging skeletons but we had many different skulls, rib bones, vertebrae of not only marine mammals but terrestrial ...
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Museum of whale skeletons, painstakingly rebuilt over years, consumed by B.C. fire
It takes years to rebuild a whale. Just ask Jim Borrowman, co-founder of the Whale Interpretive Centre museum that housed numerous whale skeletons on the boardwalk of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver ...
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Vancouver Island’s museum of whale skeletons, painstakingly rebuilt over years, consumed by New Year’s Eve fire
a partial skeleton of a sperm whale and blue whale jaw bones. “These were the hanging skeletons but we had many different skulls, rib bones, vertebrae of not only marine mammals but terrestrial ...
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Burton Constable: Plea to return 'Moby Dick' whale bones
But over the years, the skeleton became neglected and many bones were ... day upon his lower jaw. From Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (1851) Curator Philippa Wood said the whale skeleton "mouldered ...
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UK giant ichthyosaur is one of the largest animals ever
The 205 million-year-old jaw bone of a prehistoric reptile belongs to ‘one of the ... Approaching the size of a blue whale. Fossil collector and co-author of the study, Paul de la Salle, found the ...