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The Blue Whale Project
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Media

Excavation Photos: click on photos to download high-resolution version. Photos for non-commercial use only, please credit the respective photographer.

Scott McBurney and Pierre-Yves Daoust (left to right) haul a vertebra out of the pit.

Photographer: Andrew Trites

Andrew Trites talks to the team from the Discovery Channel, as work continues on the whale.

Photographer: Kim Woolcock

Mike deRoos uses a hook to pull back flesh from the bones of the whale.

Photographer: Andrew Trites

Clean vertebrae wait to be packed.

Photographer: Kim Woolcock

Notes are taken on the relative positions of the bones to aid re-assembly.

Photographer: Andrew Trites

The excavator lifts one of the giant jawbones.

Photographer: Andrew Trites

PSD file, click on skeleton to download.

Illustrator: Derek Tan

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