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“This bone,” says Canterbury Museum senior curator Paul Scofield, “is the largest of any animal that’s ever existed.” He’s standing amid a pile of ivory-coloured slabs that look like the leftovers of some behemoth’s feast. The bone in question is the long, curved lower jaw of a blue whale, and it is wrapped in plastic and labelled “418 kilograms”. It’s the weight of a polar bear.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 164 July - August 2020.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-skeleton-crew/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2020.
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THE SKELETON CREW
“This bone,” says Canterbury Museum senior curator Paul Scofield, “is the largest of any animal that’s ever existed.” He’s standing amid a pile of ivory-coloured slabs that look like the leftovers of some behemoth’s feast. The bone in question is the long, curved lower jaw of a blue whale, and it is wrapped in plastic and labelled “418 kilograms”. It’s the weight of a polar bear.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 164 July - August 2020.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-skeleton-crew/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2020.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.