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Scientists Collecting Samples from a Dead Humpback Whale

[Humpback whale, deceased]

Scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County prepare to take tissue samples and collect the skull of a dead humpback whale that has washed ashore in southern California. LACM 91353; RICHARD ROSS

Heyning, John E. Masters of the Ocean Realm: Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), p. 70.



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