UBC to exhume blue whale from P.E.I. burial
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
CBC News

A blue whale, buried in western P.E.I. in 1987, is set to become the centrepiece of a new biodiversity centre at the University of British Columbia.

The whale washed ashore near Tignish in 1987 and was buried in Nail Pond. It will be dug up this spring and shipped to Vancouver for display at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Andrew Trites of UBC's marine mammal unit was surprised to find how well preserved the whale was.

"In fact the entire blue whale is still there. It's still covered in skin and blubber after 20 years in the ground," Trites told CBC News Monday.

"This animal is so huge. It sort of defies the imagination to think how big a blue whale is. It's longer than two buses end to end; it's got a heart that was the size of a car, and arteries that a baby could crawl through."

The rest of the article is available here:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/03/04/ubc-whale...

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum - Blue Whale Project
http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/projblue01.html