Hnýðing in the Whale Museum

The whale museum in Húsavík received an even better treasure these days when a white-beaked dolphin joined the collection of the museum's skeletons. This is the twelfth skeleton that will honor the Whale Museum with its presence and the first to be added to the group since the sperm whale arrived in 2015. At the same time, this is the last species of whale that the museum was missing from those that are considered the most common in Skjálfandafló. It was Garðar Thröstur Einarsson, a cetacean, who set foot on land in order to get the nodule to his coastal location, which was in the town of Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður. Garðar Thråstur took the tuber on the spot and then drove it home, where the bones have entered the traditional process of decay. It is estimated that the bones will be ready for assembly in about a year. The whale museum would like to express its thanks to the residents of Guðlaugsvík for the gift and willingness to stay on the beach.

The tuber ran aground in Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður

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