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Pygmy sperm whale comes ashore, gets reassembled
“Cetacean Station” is North Haven Community School’s Vocational Arts workshop. Since the fall of 2004, I have been working with students here to “rearticulate” the skeletons of marine mammals that have been found dead. That is to say, we have cleaned the bones of these oceangoing animals and fastened them back together. Then they are
Flukes and Flames, Boiling Blubber – disassembling and reassembling a “squid hound”
Last May the carcass of a ten-foot-long, 500-pound white-beaked dolphin washed up on the shores of Vinalhaven. My neighbor Drew Noyes had told me about it, so Lucy McCarthy, Field Guide to Marine Mammals in hand, and I followed our noses down to the bay to take a look. There it was. I could see