Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Charleston's Whale


Charleston's Whale
Originally uploaded by richard.bignell.
The 28 million-year-old whale skeleton now on display at The Charleston Museum is a first of its kind to be exhibited anywhere in the world — and that’s no fish story.

Oligocene-era whale remains collected anywhere else in the world have been too incomplete to attempt a full skeletal mount, says Albert Sanders, the museum’s natural science curator since 1968.

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