Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale)

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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001847
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001847 - female - 19.2 m - Pelvic location - New Brunswick Museum
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49782
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49782 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - norway-pelvic
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - norway-pelvic - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Bergen Museum, Norway
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NEAQ-12-187-Bp
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NEAQ-12-187-Bp - male - 16.6 m - Pelvic location - unknown
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-275764
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-275764 - female - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-267613
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-267613 - male - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-121-Bp
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera 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.
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49588
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49588 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - AMNH-34870
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - AMNH-34870 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - American Museum of Natural History
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-8789
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-8789 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Harvard University
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - UMA-4820
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera 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.
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-62054
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera 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.
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001848
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001848 - female - 18.9 m - Pelvic location - New Brunswick Museum
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - SMBP 04-48
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - SMBP 04-48 - male - 11.75 m - Pelvic location - RI Department of Environmental Protection. 40-foot (11.75 meter) male was found swimming in 9 feet of water near the Fort Adams State Park boat ramp, Newport, RI with propeller cuts on top of head and dorsal left of fluke. It was reported to be 28 feet long. It was euthanized about noon the next day and on 15 June was taken on a flatbed 18-wheel truck to the Great Swamp Wildlife Management Area, Kingston, RI for necropsy and salvage of the skeleton. Both kidneys were found to be packed with large kidney worms. The skeleton was kept by the RI Department of Environmental Protection with plans for it to be articulated for display in a new coastal environmental education center. To date, this has not happened.
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49780
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49780 - male - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - AMNH-35026
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - AMNH-35026 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - American Museum of Natural History
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-018-Bp
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-018-Bp - male - 12.21 m - Pelvic location - College of Environmental Science and Forestry. A live 40-foot (1221 cm), sub-adult male stranded alive in snow and ice on Dyer Prince Beach just north of Rock Harbor, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA and died the same day. A necropsy was conducted on 9 February and the entire skeleton was salvaged. The skull is 9 feet 4 inches long and 4 feet 3 inches wide. The kidneys were heavily infested with the very large kidney worms that are often found in juvenile Fin Whales and are thought by some to be a cause of death. Both sets of ear bones went to Darlene Keton of WHOI. The vertebral column was cut down its entire length as part of a WHOI biomechanics study. The cut was made horizontally through the middle of the centrum of each vertebra. The cut was cleanly made, and all the skeletal pieces were saved. Most of one rack of baleen and part of the second was cleaned and dried. The Cape Cod Stranding Network (CCSN) is now run by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Given to the Roosevelt Wild Life Collection, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Syracuse, NY.
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49785
    ( 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49785 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian
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    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MH-03-478
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2022-05-12) Moore, Michael J. ; Taylor, David B.
    Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MH-03-478 - NUVC 8393 - male - 16.2 m - Pelvic location - University of Georgia, approx. 53-foot (NOAA database gives ~1780 cm = 58.5 feet), sub-adult male washed ashore in a decomposed condition at Sand Hill Beach, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Although the muscles and organs were fairly well preserved, all of the skin was peeled to a white layer, and the extremities were beginning to come apart. Missing parts included both mandibles, both maxillas and premaxillas, the baleen, the left flipper (the carpals and phalanges), the outermost right phalanges, both tail flukes along with the last two or three caudal vertebrae. The length of the remaining carcass was 51 feet from the end of the nasal cartilage to the end of the remaining tail vertebrae. The remainder of the skeleton was salvaged in 3.5 hours on the same afternoon.