Comments on: What’s next?

By: NZGeek

NZGeek — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:07:15 +0000

emmabest, he-he
Well, maybe it’s just a bad qulity image.

By: emmabest

emmabest — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:21:43 +0000

NZGeek! you should know better

He definately is a wee whale – have you seen all the other photos? His outer ‘covering’ is skin and blubber – not an exoskeleton (in fact if his skeleton was on the outside maybe that would’ve made the scientist’s job easier!)

I didn’t see any legs or antennae either

By: NZGeek

NZGeek — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:05:43 +0000

Hmmm…it doesn’t look like whale to me. It looks like insect.

By: emmabest

emmabest — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:20:46 +0000

Hi Karen

hopefully you will have kept track of the blog – Jane has taken over for now (we kind of tag team – it keeps the scientists on their toes).

She’s included some new photos along with getting some of the scientists to blog as well.

We’ll see about putting more photos up

By: karen

karen — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:34:07 +0000

Thanks Emma! Will you be taking pictures and adding them to the blog?! I find these things truely facinating and have to say thanks, because normally I would not get the chance to see the insides of a whale or squid etc… or how everything looks or works.

So for that I look forward to any new posts!

By: emmabest

emmabest — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:43:14 +0000

Hi Karen

Yes – shame about not being able to have live cameras. The best we can do is keep blogging!

The scientists are dissecting him from the outside in – at the moment they’re looking at how the musculature and ligaments are organised. So no internal organs have been investigated. At this point we don’t know how he died.

Will keep you posted

By: karen

karen — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:30:54 +0000

Awwwww the poor lil whale, what happened to him. I wish we still had the cam so we could watch what you do!