Minke whale skeleton from Maine finds new home in the Arizona desert
News Center Maine writes about how wanting to inspire students in a land-locked state to think more about marine life, College of the Atlantic Captain Toby Stephenson delivers a Minke whale skeleton from Bar Harbor, Maine to the Bisbee Science Lab in Arizona.
By Beth McEvoy | News Center Maine
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 ’98.
“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.