Children peer inside the mouth of "Jonas" the whale.
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In the early 1950s, the World Wildlife Fund, in conjunction with the University of Oslo, planned to put on a one-of-kind traveling educational exhibit for the public
In the icy waters off the coast of Norway, hunters harpooned and killed a 60-foot, 58-ton fin whale. After hauling it back to shore, a team of scientists quickly drained it of its 7,000 liters of blood and pumped it full of formalin, a preservative
The entrails and organs were also removed, including the 6-ton liver and 2.5-ton tongue. A refrigeration system was installed in the belly of the leviathan to keep it intact Read more...
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