California’s January storms washed many things onto the beaches, probably none more poignant than this skull.
A female gray whale likely killed by a ship and found near Muir Beach will have its 400-pound skull repurposed as an educational tool in the Presidio’s Field Station. 50 feet high
The skull weighs approximately 400 pounds, not surprising given that gray whales – which travel near the California coastline on their migration between Mexico and the Arctic – typically are more than 50,000 lbs and are 40 feet long. And it just so happened, marine researchers already knew the creature it belonged to: a 38-foot female likely killed in a ship strike near the Golden Gate Bridge last spring, whose body washed up on nearby Little Beach.
Now the whale’s skull will provide even more value. A National Park Service staffer decided that the “, a new park curiosity lab at Presidio Tunnel Tops, would be an ideal place to share it and its story with the public,” says Damien Raffa, a senior park experience and partnerships specialist at the Presidio Trust. Volunteers working with the National Park Service bundled the skull onto a truck and carted it over to San Francisco where it will go on exhibit.
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