RARE WHALE SKELETON FOR DOMINION MUSEUM
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 25. A skeleton of a porpoise whale which was washed ashore at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, in February of last year, a species known to science as berardius arnuxii, is ready for articulation and will form an addition to the exhibits of the Dominion Museum, making the second of this rare species that the museum will boast and only the eighth possessed by the museums of the world. Practically nothing is known about the porpoise whale, and only fifteen specimens have ever been recorded. None have ever been seen or taken alive. Fourteen of the recorded carcases were on the New Zealand coasts, the remaining fine being found at La Plata.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 8
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122RARE WHALE SKELETON FOR DOMINION MUSEUM Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 8
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