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Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - MCZ-62052 - male - 10.3 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University. 33.8 foot, 2.5-year-old male known as #2366, and the calf of #1266, washed ashore at Second Beach, Middletown, RI. Whale was entangled in 1 cm pot warp with 1 line through the mouth at the base of the tongue and 6 to 8 lines tightly wrapped around the base of the right flipper where they had become embedded in the bone of the humerus. Skeleton, missing both pelvic bones, and hyoid (went with larynx to Mt Sinai School of Medicine), salvaged for the MCZ, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - VMSM-2004-1004f - male - 5.32 m - Pelvic location - Virginia Marine Science Museum

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - UF-25452 - female - 10 m - Pelvic location - University of Florida

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - KLC-022 - male - 4.97 m - Pelvic location - University of North Carolina

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - AMNH-42752 - female - unknown length - Pelvic location - American Museum of Natural History

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - VMSM-2004-1004 - female - 16 m - Pelvic location - Virginia Marine Science Museum

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - EG-2150 - female - 13.70 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - Eg-NEFL-07-04 - male (neonate) - 0.41 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - PRI-53162 - female - 13.70 m - Pelvic location - Paleontological Research Institution. 44-foot, female known as #2030 found floating off Cape May, NJ and towed ashore. Complete skeleton salvaged on 22 & 23 October for the Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY where its articulated skeleton is on display.

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - IFAW-17-182-Eg - female - 8.15 m - Pelvic location - UMass Ahmerst

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - UMA-4920 - female - 13.70 m - Pelvic location - UMass Ahmerst. 45-foot, 50–60-ton, female named Staccato (#1014) found floating in Cape Cod Bay off Wellfleet and towed ashore at Duck Harbor, Wellfleet, MA. This whale was first recorded in 1974 in Cape Cod Bay. She had produced at least 6 calves. She was apparently hit by a ship and died some days later. She had 5 broken vertebral processes on the right side and a broken right mandible. Complete skeleton salvaged for the Univ. of MA, Amherst.

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - LACM-054763 - female - length unknown - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - MJM-070110-Eg - male - 13.7 m - Pelvic location - Smithsonian. The carcass of a 45-foot male was spotted by the Coast Guard Cutter Legare floating 46 miles off Cape May, NJ. It was re-located 69 miles off Cape May on 30 June by a NOAA aircraft. It was retrieved by the 87 foot Coast Guard Cutter Finback on 1 July and towed to near Cape Henlopen, NJ where it was passed off to a commercial vessel. It was beached at Seashore State Park, DL. The carcass was attended by a number of sharks. The necropsy and skeletal salvage were led by Michael Moore of WHOI and Bill McClellan of the Univ. NC, Wilmington, and took all day on 2 July. The carcass had net marks suggesting drowning from gear entanglement. The skeleton was loaded into a 10 wheeled dump truck and the skull onto a heavy equipment trailer and driven to Belchertown, MA beginning on 6 July and arriving at 1:00 AM on the 7th. The transportation fee was $3,000. The finish cutting took 6 hours in humid 100-degree conditions on the 7th (a long-time regional record high temp.) and another 3 hours on the 8th with two people. Since the skeleton is from a mature adult, it is heavy and dense. Every single small bone was salvaged and very little is broken. One pair of vertebrae is fused by Spondylosis deformans and at least one other is affected. The upper left palate (palatine bone) has a healed crack. One humerus has a deep furrow from a rope cutting in over a long period of time. The initial plan was to ship the skeleton to the Madeira Whale Museum on the island of Madeira, Portugal where it would be articulated for display. However, after two years, funds could not be raised for the project. The skeleton was donated to the Smithsonian and is the only complete adult North Atlantic Right Whale skeleton in the collection. This animal was identified by the New England Aquarium in 2013, based on a DNA sample, as “Tips” #1124. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/watch-a-1400-pound-right-whale-skull-arrive-at-the-smithsonian-180949045/?no-ist

Description: Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - KSM-374 - female - 14.90 m - Pelvic location - University of North Carolina