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Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's porpoise) - CVM-3523 - female - unknown length - Pelvic location - Vancouver Museum

Phocoenoides dalli (Dall's porpoise) - LACM-054109 - male - 1.94 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale) - USNM-49788 - male - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian

Delphinus capensis (long-beaked common dolphin) - LACM-084021 - female - 2.14 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale) - SYZC-1402 - male - 5.70 m - Pelvic location - Mystic Aquarium

Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - USNM-49588 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Smithsonian

Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - norway-pelvic - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - Bergen Museum, Norway

Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - NBM-001847 - female - 19.2 m - Pelvic location - New Brunswick Museum

Delphinus delphis (common dolphin) - NUVC-2693 - male - 2.22 m - Pelvic location - University of Georgia

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - UF-25146 - male - 9.40 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Kogia breviceps (pygmy sperm whale) - AMNH-35912 -unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - American Museum of Natural History

Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - MCZ-62054 - male - 19.8 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University. 50-foot (600 inches), male found floating 7.5 miles east of Newburyport and towed to shore at parking lot 1, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury, Essex Co., MA. One mandible, and the radius and ulna on 1 side broken from possible ship strike. Most vertebra, ribs and skull broken by excavator rolling the carcass up on the beach. Broken skull, mandibles, and atlas, salvaged for the MCZ, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA., 1 vertebra given to Triton Regional High School, Newbury, MA. In 2005 a storm uncovered part of the buried carcass allowing most of the caudal vertebrae and one pelvic to be salvaged for the MCZ.

Balaenoptera physalus (fin whale) - IFAW-09-018-Bp - male - 12.21 m - Pelvic location - College of Environmental Science and Forestry. A live 40-foot (1221 cm), sub-adult male stranded alive in snow and ice on Dyer Prince Beach just north of Rock Harbor, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA and died the same day. A necropsy was conducted on 9 February and the entire skeleton was salvaged. The skull is 9 feet 4 inches long and 4 feet 3 inches wide. The kidneys were heavily infested with the very large kidney worms that are often found in juvenile Fin Whales and are thought by some to be a cause of death. Both sets of ear bones went to Darlene Keton of WHOI. The vertebral column was cut down its entire length as part of a WHOI biomechanics study. The cut was made horizontally through the middle of the centrum of each vertebra. The cut was cleanly made, and all the skeletal pieces were saved. Most of one rack of baleen and part of the second was cleaned and dried. The Cape Cod Stranding Network (CCSN) is now run by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Given to the Roosevelt Wild Life Collection, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, SUNY Syracuse, NY.

Balaena mysticetus (bowhead whale) - LACM 072490 - female - 16.76 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - SY-Mn-0941 - male - 12.50 m - Pelvic location - New York State Museum. The carcass of a 41-foot adult male washed ashore on Briggs Beach, Little Compton, Newport Co., RI. It was buried in the intertidal zone, without being necropsied, on 20 June but was quickly uncovered by the surf. On 25 June, I assisted staff of the Mystic Aquarium in conducting an examination of the carcass and salvaging the skeleton. The salvage took about 6.5 hours. The entire skeleton was saved, including both pelvics and both sets of ear bones, but there was some damage to the skull caused by the excavator. About half of the baleen was saved. There was no bruising under the blubber, but the stomach was full of krill, so the whale probably drowned in fishing gear The atlas, axis, and cervical #3 are all fused together, and one transverse process of the axis is unconnected, having a ball-and-socket like attachment to the vertebra. The anterior end of one mandible is swollen and pitted from a bone infection. The skeleton was given to the New York State Museum, Albany, NY.

Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - LACM-054763 - female - length unknown - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MCZ-63341 - male - 8.53 m - Pelvic location - Harvard University. 28 foot (336 inches), yearling male washed ashore at the granite breakwater, Pigeon Cove Harbor, Rockport, Essex Co., MA. Decomposed carcass not reported to NEA until 16 November. Nearly complete but damaged skeleton, missing right mandible, both radius & ulna, and outer portion of one flipper, and with rostrum broken off and greatly fragmented ,cranium mostly intact, many vertebral discs and inter-vertebral processes broken, and 1 neural arch broken, salvaged on 17 November, and given to the MCZ, Harvard Univ.

Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - UF-25452 - female - 10 m - Pelvic location - University of Florida

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - metatarsal - female - length unknown - Pelvic location - Victoria Museum

Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic white-sided dolphin) - MCZ-52758 - female - unknown length - Pelvic location - Harvard University

Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale) - Eg-NEFL-07-04 - male (neonate) - 0.41 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) - UF 24619 - female - 5.75 m - Pelvic location - University of Florida

Globicephala melas (long finned pilot whale) - CCSN-04-141 - male - 4.60 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-98-629 - male - 10.00 m - Pelvic location - UMass Amherst. about 33.5-foot (402 in), male named “Footsteps” washed ashore 1 mile north of Balston Beach parking lot, Truro, Barnstable Co., MA. First found floating about 1 mile off Marconi on 3 May and washed ashore on 5 May. Footsteps was born in 1997. Skeleton, missing both scapulas which were accidently buried on beach, both pelvic bones, sternum, 1 first rib, and 4 cervical vertebrae including the atlas & axis, salvaged on 8 May for the Univ. of MA, Amherst.

Peponocephala electra (melon-headed whale) - LACM-054090 - female - 0.91 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Lagenorhynchus albirostris (white-beaked dolphin) - MCZ-5322 - male - length unknown - Pelvic location - Harvard University

Globicephala melas (long finned pilot whale) - CCSN-02-179-184-235 - male - unknown length - Pelvic location - Harvard University

Globicephala macrorhynchus (short-finned pilot whale) - UF-624 - unknown sex - unknown length - Pelvic location - University of Florida

Physeter catodon (sperm whale) - NBM-001851 - male - unknown length - Pelvic location - New Brunswick Museum

Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) - NUVC 2289 - male - 5.20 m - Pelvic location - University of Georgia 17-foot (520.7 cm), male washed ashore on south end of Plum Island in the state park, 50 feet S. of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge border, Ipswich, Essex Co., MA. Stomach contained bones of many fish. Skeleton, missing both mandibles, and all but 1 arm of the hyoid, salvaged 31 October for Northeastern Univ., Boston.

Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais' beaked whale) - UF-25453 - male - 4.20 m - Pelvic location - University of Florida

Megaptera novaeangliae (humpback whale) - MH-07-468 - male - 9.25 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin) - CCSN-02-128 - male - 2.93 m - Pelvic location - unknown

Physeter catodon (sperm whale) - UF-30916 - female - 10.7 m - University of Florida

Physeter catodon (sperm whale) - NYSM-14300 - male - 7.30 m - Pelvic location - NY Science Museum. 24-foot male stranded alive and euthanized at Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway, the Queens, Long Island, New York. This animal was about weaning age. It had no erupted teeth but skin covered bumps over each tooth site. Its stomach contained squid beaks. The entire skeleton, missing one vestigial pelvic bone, was salvaged for the New York State Museum on 6 January. Both sets of ear bones went to Darlene Keaton.

Orcinus orca (killer whale) - LACM-084249 - male - 6.65 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum

Stenella attenuata (pantropical spotted dolphin) - LACM-054043 - male - 1.95 m - Pelvic location - LA County Museum