Captain Toby Stephenson of the College of the Atlantic delivered a 400-pound minke whale skeleton to the Bisbee Science Lab in Arizona in November 2020.
What weighs 400 pounds, is longer than a pickup truck, used to live in the Atlantic ocean but now is surrounded by a sea of sand in the Arizona desert?
It’s a Minke whale skeleton delivered nearly 3,000 miles from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine to the Bisbee Science Lab in Arizona all thanks to Captain Toby Stephenson.
“When a kid walks into a museum and they look up and they see a big skeleton … its a garden for their imagination to grow and really flourish. Big skeletons grow big ideas and big imaginations,” says Stephenson who has been teaching at the College of the Atlantic for a decade and captains the schools’ research vessel.
