Fall 2026 3 PHOTOS BY BRIAN HORNE AND MARK FARLEY PHOTO ESSAY from Alberta, Canada-based Dinosaur Valley Studios put the cleaned, restored and preserved skeleton back together again, bone by bone, in the courtyard of the Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building. “The impact of the finished display is powerful and humbling,” said Lisa T. Ballance, director of the Marine Mammal Institute. “It will inspire everyone who sees it.” Learn more about visiting at beav.es/bones. —Michelle Klampe 5,500-pound, 70-foot skeleton into a resource for learning and discovery. Blue whales typically sink to the ocean floor after death and only a handful of their skeletons are on view in North America. This May, a team
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