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Skeleton of massive blue whale hits the road to Canada for final restoration before going on display in Newport

March 23, 2023

By KENNETH LIPP/YachatsNews Newport will soon be the home of one of the largest animals to ever roam the Earth — a near-complete skeleton of a 70-foot long blue whale. Speaking to reporters Thursday in a South Beach marine storage facility holding the whale’s skeleton, dinosaur reconstruction expert Frank Hadfield said sauropod-type dinosaurs were longer than whales, but none

OSU hauls blue whale bones out of Yaquina Bay after three years of “cleaning”

November 24, 2019

By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU NEWPORT – After more than three years at the bottom of Yaquina Bay, the skeleton of a 78-foot blue whale has been put on dry land so it can be preserved and prepared for a public display. With the help of a team of technical divers from the Oregon Coast Aquarium in the water and a crane