The Chronicle of Higher Education

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...

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