Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-01-975

Abstract

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-01-975 - female - 11.37 m - Pelvic location - UMaine Orino. – 37.3 foot (1137 cm), two-year-old female named “Pitfall” washed ashore bloated on Duxbury Beach, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. Complete skeleton salvaged on 2 October. Skull and right mandible badly broken by ship strike. Outside of carcass looked fresh with live barnacles and whale lice, but vertebrae were floating loose on inside from intense internal heat. Missing hyoids. The baleen was left with the skeleton and decomposed into the individual plates which were given to Dana Hartley to be distributed for educational use. Given to Becky Woodward of the University of Maine, Orono, Engineering Department.