Whale Ashore at Wrightville Beach, NC, 1928. Nicknamed "Trouble" - skeleton is now in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC. Barden Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
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pennylrichardsca 14 months ago | reply
The story of getting the skeleton to Raleigh:
blogs.newsobserver.com/pasttimes/when-trouble-came-to-the...
"Riley found the form to be a large sperm whale measuring 54 feet, 2 inches in length and 33 feet in girth. The whale's massive tail was 14 feet wide and the lower jaw, 10 feet long, contained 46 teeth which fitted into sockets in its toothless upper jaw. Its estimated weight was 50 tons -- the largest sperm whale ever found in local waters."