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Blue whale, buried since 1987, exhumed in eastern Canada for move to…
The Boston Globe explains the circumstances and process behind reducing a female blue whale to her skeleton for an exhibit at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver. She washed ashore on Prince Edward Island in 1987 and was buried with the thought that the natural decomposition process would remove her flesh from her bones. Scientists found mummified flesh instead and have quite a task ahead of them to get her bones. Not only do they have three people on hand tasked with keeping knives sharp, but they have a special lumberjack's chainsaw, too. They will soak the remains in special, large enzyme vats in Vancouver to remove what they can't remove with tools, especially the noxious oil from the blubber.

created May 17, 2008 by jessica

 
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blue whale
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Prince Edward Island
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum

 

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  • jhota May 18, 2008
     
    rancid, 21-year-old whale blubber? sign me up.
     
  • Jim Cowie May 18, 2008
     
    don't they have ants in canada? seems like insects should be able to reduce most any size mammal to clean bones in a matter of days to months.
     
  • jessica May 18, 2008
     
    Isn't rancid whale blubber a delicacy somewhere?
     
  • todd May 18, 2008
     
    jim: m thoughts exactly: insects of some sort. although with mumified flesh, maybe not.
     
 
 
 
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