ROM Blue Whale Recovery Project 2014

The Royal Ontario Museum has been working with people from the towns of Trout River and Woody Point in Newfoundland to recover the skeleton of a 76-foot long endangered blue whale that died along with 8 other whales in the area after a particularly bad winter and ice. The ROM plans to use the skeleton and tissue samples collected from the whale's body for research and education to study and help conserve the living blue whale populations in Canada and around the world.