The skull from a whale that washed up at Port Mahon in April of last year has finally made its way to Delaware Museum of Natural History near Greenville.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that it took six volunteers to lift the massive skull onto a platform on Friday to truck it up the facility.
Halsey Spruance, director of the Museum told the newspaper that this was an important environmental find for the region.
It took more than a year to decompose before the Museum made the effort to transport the skull.
Jean Woods, the Mueum’s curator, said that she was surprised at the smallness of the whale’s brain cavity and told the News Journal that it had a soft spot on the head like an infant child.
She added that she is thrilled with the bones which she said differed from many of the other specimens because of their shape and size.
