Rare blue whale skeleton heads to Canada before going on display in Newport

OSU collaborated with Dinosaur Valley Studios in Alberta to clean and preserve the bones.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — A rare 70-foot-long blue whale skeleton is headed to Canada to be cleaned before it is displayed on the Oregon coast. Back in 2015, the carcass of a blue whale washed ashore in Gold Beach, Oregon.

Although whales washing up on the Oregon coast is fairly common, seeing a blue whale is not. According to Oregon State University (OSU), the last known beached blue whale was more than 200 years ago.

After the appearance of the blue whale, OSU launched a project in collaboration with the Hatfield

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