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Whale Secrets Revealed

Whale head
(Graduate Biology students Sarah Stachura Kienle (left), Nick Zellmer, and Biology major Will Itie (far right) lift the gray whale head onto the dissecting table)

SDSU researchers get a rare chance to dissect the head of a grey whale.

A team of San Diego State University researchers recently performed a rare outdoor dissection of a baby whale’s head.

The dissection, led by a team of students and professors specializing in the anatomy of modern and extinct marine mammals, has become beneficial to both the scientific research and the SDSU community.

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