NAIL POND, Prince Edward Island - In Canada's tiniest province, scientists are undertaking what may be history's largest exhumation of a single creature.
It's a whale of a tale, and a ripe one, too.
The reek from the excavation of a blue whale is strong enough to churn the stomach and bring tears streaming. It's been nearly 21 years since the immense creature washed ashore and was buried on an isolated strand of red sand near the island's northwest tip.
"We're uncovering a beast bigger than any dinosaur," said Andrew Trites, biologist and leader of the effort to recover the full skeleton of the nearly forgotten cetacean and reassemble it at a new museum at the University of British Columbia, on the country's opposite shore.
"It's the length of two city buses, it held a heart the size of a Volkswagen, and a tongue about the size of an elephant," he said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/17/the_biggest_dig_unearthing_leviathan_in_canada/
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