{"id":660438,"date":"2026-05-23T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660438\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:42:19","slug":"blue-whale-skeleton-now-on-display-in-newport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660438\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue whale skeleton now on display in Newport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-foot <a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC1TbrvLzW5H14olUT7GW28rkgWWjSySSyCRT5JmlFvm7nJmMKeNYLWiqWMZ9hHhAfw-3D-3DAtqd_g-2FammxnJGe5cGts1Wl9BBO0Wyz0UfQY1d0fjnV-2BYYPX6fN7rfx71BR047eOIvQsoil-2FylpS2573D-2FoZdAL9pOBb5rmHVcH0q1BE6PNjbgv03Dnojui4v-2BXjfo-2FFYr6kCvp9Xee2vFzjKIdrnV5bFbBh-2FcEFFVqKzH-2BF6zRxHpbuA86bgq9LAFh3hZWK8u2OzDQy3glMrrGqPtU7rJJCvWmwKvXuKR0jtDHlYCrrSPeIoQY6257Jg3zQXR5SDc910aesAu61y4hke7-2BVuBU-2FXmr4EShuChJ9qaYGYmArbfwJ9-2F86mfAR3JRmjrjUuW-2FUtCrCvO1wEZM-2BcnhT6Xt4fzg-3D-3D\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blue whale skeleton<\/a> is now on display at Oregon State University\u2019s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.<\/p>\n<p>People on the coast over the holiday weekend can be among the first to look at it.<\/p>\n<p>The blue whale had washed up dead on a southern Oregon beach more than ten years ago. Over that time, the bones were cleaned and the Marine Mammal Institute worked with a Canadian company to put together the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Crews assembled the 5,500 pound skeleton on a steel support frame over the last several days in Newport.<\/p>\n<p>The process was captured on live web cameras and in a series of<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g1SjQyEYJYY?si=3ZJH5ooaHYwRf51y\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> time-lapse videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-foot blue whale skeleton is now on display at Oregon State University\u2019s Hatfield Marine Science Center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-660438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}