Title: Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-01-975

Type Still Image Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-01-975. 2022-05-20. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Still Image. https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/28848

Authors: Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B. ;

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• Item record in Woods Hole Open Access Server
• Digital object URL

Summary

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-01-975 - female - 11.37 m - Pelvic location - UMaine Orino. – 37.3 foot (1137 cm), two-year-old female named “Pitfall” washed ashore bloated on Duxbury Beach, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. Complete skeleton salvaged on 2 October. Skull and right mandible badly broken by ship strike. Outside of carcass looked fresh with live barnacles and whale lice, but vertebrae were floating loose on inside from intense internal heat. Missing hyoids. The baleen was left with the skeleton and decomposed into the individual plates which were given to Dana Hartley to be distributed for educational use. Given to Becky Woodward of the University of Maine, Orono, Engineering Department.

More information

• URI: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/28848

Subjects

• Megaptera novaeangliae, Humpback whale

Dates

• accessioned: May 20, 2022
• available: May 20, 2022
• created: October 01, 2001
• Publication date: May 20, 2022

Format

electronic resource