More than a decade after the body of a 70-foot blue whale washed up on the southern Oregon Coast, its skeleton will be installed in a permanent educational display at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.
Viewers can watch the display come to life via two web cameras, starting with installation of a steel support system for the massive, 5,500-pound skeleton, which is expected to begin later this week, weather and construction conditions permitting. To tune in, visit beav.es/bones.
This blue whale skeleton will be one of only a handful of such skeletons available for public viewing in North America, and the only one between Vancouver, British Columbia, and the San Francisco Bay area. Blue whales – the largest animals ever to live – are endangered. Because they live primarily in the deep ocean, they are rarely visible to the public and tend to sink when they die.
Ethan Shaw
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