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Tag Archives: Ottawa
Bathing Whales
A big part of the Water Project is the new permanent gallery to be housed in Ottawa, and a big part of that gallery is a real, full-sized blue whale skeleton. This skeleton will be close to 20m (65 ft)! … Continue reading
Posted in Water
Tagged blue whale, Canadian museum of nature, Collections, Ottawa, skeleton, specimens, water project
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From our collections
Every now and then I take a trip down to the collections pods to see what neat specimens are being prepared for the gallery. Here’s my latest discovery. Judith Price, Assistant Collections Manager for the invertebrate collection gave me some … Continue reading
Posted in Water
Tagged Canadian museum of nature, Collections, crab, crustacean, Ottawa, specimens, traveling exhibit, water project
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A Needle in the Haystack
Sometimes research is like finding a needle in a haystack. It can be like that for paleontologists. They might know where specific geological formations are. They might understand the Earth history that caused it and have vivid ideas about what … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian museum of nature, Fossils, Ottawa, researcher, taxonomy
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Rebuilding a whale
The big centerpiece of the new permanent water gallery will be a fully articulated blue whale skeleton. However, exhibiting a specimen like this has many challenges, beside the obvious one presented by its enormous size. The specimen being prepared is … Continue reading
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Tagged blue whale, Canadian museum of nature, model, Ottawa, skeleton, whale
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