The world's only taxidermied blue whale has a scandalous secret

In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued—instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for preservation and display. Today, this remains the world's only taxidermied blue whale, housed at the Natural History Museum in Göteborg, Sweden. — Read the rest
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