High above the live animal tanks, sargassum weed and
artifacts from the coast are the skeletons of five whales.
A plaque on the second floor of the North Carolina
Museum of Natural Sciences identifies the largest of
these suspended from the ceiling, at just about eye
level with the leviathan. Inscribed is a curious name:
The skeleton of Trouble, a 54-foot sperm whale that washed up on Wrightsville Beach
in 1928, hangs from the top of the Coastal North Carolina Hall at the North Carolina
Museum of Natural Sciences.
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WBM march 2013
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