March 21, 2008
A Whale of a Stench
A huge blue whale, buried for 20 years, can still reduce grown men and women to breathlessness.
"There's no worse smell in the world than dead whale," says Andrew Trites, leader of a project to move the bones of the buried whale from Prince Edward Island, on Canada's Atlantic coast, to a new home at the University of British Columbia, on the Pacific coast. "This one triggered an auto-reflex to gag and bring up the breakfast, so you just stop breathing for a bit to get it under
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