
(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.

