https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/18/whale-croc-lost-in-brazil/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/18/whale-croc-lost-in-brazil/#comment-688 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:16:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/18/whale-croc-lost-in-brazil/#comment-688 The Minke whale story was definitely a surprise to me, although it does recall a bit of RU lore. Apparently there once was a Right Whale that died along the Raritan, and legend has it that it was taken to “Passion Puddle” on the Cook/Douglass campus to have its flesh and muscle removed. Whether that part is true or not, the bones eventually wound up at the Rutgers geology museum, but ultimately were sent to Yale. Unfortunately, the bones were never prepped properly and were so greasy that they were thrown out, the story now having slipped into obscurity. Cetaceans still do show up along the Ratian, though; just last year a bottlenose dolphin made it’s way up to New Brunswick before being rescued.

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