Project 365.52
Today was the day that I have been waiting for all week.
Today they started in on the dolphin head!
Now you might be having a WTF moment, so I will elaborate:
Last week, Jim, the collections master, (a title that I've bestowed upon him when I learned that his position had no title; he manages the herbarium and the vertebrate collection), told me that they have a dolphin head for the collection. Apparently there was a marine mammalogist that donated the head. I really wanted to see it before they dug into it, but I came in too late this morning. I had envisioned that it was all smooth gray skin, but this is a common dolphin so it was black. Jim tells me that it was quite gross. So this the photo of the day is the dissected skull of the dolphin.
So you did it, huh? Well it's not that gross, it was a bit smelly. There is a piece of the black skin on the skull that the girls (yes, they were girls!) placed on there for me to take the picture. They even placed the blowhole back in place. On the pile of skin and blubber in the behind the skull are the eyes, place together and "looking" up.
Ah, the things you find in the CSUN Biology department. Gloriousness.
Today they started in on the dolphin head!
Now you might be having a WTF moment, so I will elaborate:
Last week, Jim, the collections master, (a title that I've bestowed upon him when I learned that his position had no title; he manages the herbarium and the vertebrate collection), told me that they have a dolphin head for the collection. Apparently there was a marine mammalogist that donated the head. I really wanted to see it before they dug into it, but I came in too late this morning. I had envisioned that it was all smooth gray skin, but this is a common dolphin so it was black. Jim tells me that it was quite gross. So this the photo of the day is the dissected skull of the dolphin.
So you did it, huh? Well it's not that gross, it was a bit smelly. There is a piece of the black skin on the skull that the girls (yes, they were girls!) placed on there for me to take the picture. They even placed the blowhole back in place. On the pile of skin and blubber in the behind the skull are the eyes, place together and "looking" up.
Ah, the things you find in the CSUN Biology department. Gloriousness.