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Balaenoptera borealis (sei whale) - MH-07-473
No full textBalaenoptera borealis (sei whale) - MH-07-473 - female - 14.40 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University The carcass of a 47.2-foot (1440 cm) female was found floating on 30 May and washed ashore in Lobster Cove, Manchester by-the-sea on 4 June. The entire skeleton was salvaged the following day. During the necropsy it was found to have been struck by a ship. The stomach contained food. There was severe bruising, 8 consecutive vertebrae beginning about lumbar #2 were fractured and most of the ribs on the left side were broken. The radius and ulna were both broken on both sides. The bones of the left flipper were still present, but those of the right flipper beyond the break were missing and the ends of the radius and ulna were ground smooth by rocks. The skull and jaws were undamaged, and the bulla remained with the skull. All of the left baleen rack was saved in 5 pieces, and the anterior quarter and posterior third of the right rack were saved. The central portion of the right rack had been crudely cut out by someone during the previous night
Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001848
No full textBalaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001848 - female - 18.9 m - Pelvic location - New Brunswick Museu
Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-62054
No full textBalaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-62054 - male - 19.8 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University. 50-foot (600 inches), male found floating 7.5 miles east of Newburyport and towed to shore at parking lot 1, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, Essex Co., MA. One mandible, and the radius and ulna on 1 side broken from possible ship strike. Most vertebra, ribs and skull broken by excavator rolling the carcass up on the beach. Broken skull, mandibles, and atlas, salvaged for the MCZ, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA., 1 vertebra given to Triton Regional High School, Newbury, MA. In 2005 a storm uncovered part of the buried carcass allowing most of the caudal vertebrae and one pelvic to be salvaged for the MCZ
Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - UMA-4820
No full textBalaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - UMA-4820 - female 16.8 m - Pelvic location - UMass Amherst. 55 foot (660 inches), female stranded alive at Sunken Meadow Beach, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA. Euthanized and towed to Jeremy Point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet. Anterior 2 feet of left mandible broken off, coronoid processes (where the masseter muscle attaches) broken on each mandible, tip of left maxilla broken off, crack across left maxilla & left scapula with recent granulation of healing bone at all of these sites. The extent of these injuries suggested ship strike. Skull, mandibles, both flippers including scapulas, both pelvic bones, sternum and right first rib salvaged on 8 August for the Univ. of MA, Amherst
Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-121-Bp
No full textBalaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-121-Bp - female - 15.50 m - Pelvic location - New York State Museum. The carcass of a 50.7-foot (1546 cm), sub-adult male was reported floating off Provincetown in the morning and washed ashore on Herring Cove Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Provincetown, Barnstable Co., MA later in the day. The necropsy and salvage of the skeleton were done on 23 May and took about 6 hours. The entire skeleton was salvaged, but both sets of ear bones went to Darlene Keton at WHOI and the hyoid bones went with the trachea. The left first rib apparently was not retrieved. One chevron was damaged during cleaning by a dog or coyote. Both pelvic bones were saved. There were fresh mesh net impressions on the skin suggesting that this animal drowned in a pair trawl. There was also an infected cut on the left tail fluke that appeared to have been from a propeller. Both racks of baleen were saved in one piece. The skeleton was given to the New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-088955
No full textDelphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-088955 - female - 1.89 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museu
Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-084256
No full textDelphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-084256 - male - 1.98 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museu
Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-084185
No full textDelphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-084185 - male - 2.12 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museu
Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-088979
No full textDelphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-088979 - male - 2.12 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museu
Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - KLC-022
No full textEubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - KLC-022 - male - 4.97 m - Pelvic location - University of North Carolin