How Whale Specimens Get Devoured For The Smithsonian's 18,000 Bone Collection | Colossal Collections
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- The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has over 18,000 specimens in its marine mammal bone collection, notably featuring a rare 8.5-foot adult Rice's whale skull. This collection is so large - in both size and scale - that it has outgrown the museum.
Most of the collection is located in an airplane hangar in the Museum Support Center in Maryland. Here's a deep dive into where the Smithsonian gets these bones, how they're cleaned, why it has them, and how they're maintained.
Credit (MOTE Marine Lab) 2:50-2:55
0:45 - Meet John
1:03 - 80-foot long blue whale
1:33 - Rice's whale
3:10 - Whale vertebrae
4:07 - Beaked whales and dolphin heads
4:30 - Pygmy sperm whale
4:52 - Dermestid beetles
5:46 - Composting beaked whale skull
7:14 - Mounting Rice's whale skull
7:40 - Rice's whale fractures and bruises
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How Whale Specimens Get Devoured For The Smithsonian's 18,000 Bone Collection | Colossal Collections
The joy & enthusiasm of the people in these facilities perfectly sum up the term "Beautiful Nerds"
The bones are not hidden but are stored. Can you imagine how huge a museum would be if all of their collection was on display?
Don't forget that scientists research those bones, and it would be hard to do their job if the bones were on display.
Imagine if museums didn’t lose millions of artifacts because of their greed and practically nonexistent organizational procedures. You have never worked in archives and I can tell.
@@UnlimitedEmeraldsI have not either. Would you care to elaborate?
the museum is bullshit,
this guy is a joy to watch
Ososky is the most perfect name for this guy, since osso in Portuguese means bone, so his name sort of sounds like Dr. Bonesky
Boss-man here is amazing! What a fantastic character!
I would love to work in a place like this. It's like, industrial level public science and cateloguing - what a fun, interesting, unique place to be!
I met Matt Klope and Carla Dove when I was stationed in Djibouti Africa. I was working Air Operations and Matt was performing Bird Strike Investigations. I don’t recall but Matt told me the the Smithsonian aviary division and other groups were coming to Djibouti. The last time they were there was over 100 years ago. It was a dream come true for me. As a kid I was into Science and read Darwin’s, Wallace’s and other Naturalist books. This was supposed to be my last tour before retiring from the Navy. When I met Carla and her team they brought back memories that I had forgotten. From wanting to become a Scientist to Aircraft Mechanic is different but very similar. Watching the Scientist preserve the specimens with corn starch was amazing. The science hasn’t changed that much since Darwin’s Voyage. I had a job to do there but for the short time they were there I was a fly on the wall. Everyone was very cool. Watching how they prepare to preserve the whales brought back these memories of me visiting the scientist from the Smithsonian in Djibouti Africa.
That looks amazing. It's cool to see these bones being preserved for an extended period of time.
Love to see the passion he has for the collection.
Is it pre historic?
@@GameDevArazdo you think dolphins are pre historic? Are you for real
@@noamjacob1216 am asking
Great to see that the skeletons of these beautiful animals are eventually put on display in a museum. However, when I hear the cause of their death it's very sad at the same time… plastic and fishing nets... Unimaginable that we let this happen.🤦🏼♂️🌍
Really cool to see how all these researchers are so nice and passionate about their job
I absolutely love the passion and dedication you all clearly have. Thank you for your important work.
Ososky is the most perfect name for this guy, since osso in Portuguese means bone, so his name sort of sounds like Dr. Bonesky
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This is some good stuff 👍👍
NICE VIDEO
7:03 shoutout hoppe hunting🔥🔥
This is a man whose never worked a day in his life, you can tell he is incredibly passionate about what he does
you had me in the first half lmao
Ososky is the most perfect name for this guy, since osso in Portuguese means bone, so his name sort of sounds like Dr. Bonesky
The way he’s yanking the drawer and whipping out the scapula like it’s paper 😂
This guy is so jolly and chipper. I rarely enjoy humans.
ahahaha we feel you buddy. Humanity is certainly a bee in my bonnet most of the time.
Your both humans too.
Most edgiest comment here
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Dermastid beetles are also useful for reptile keepers. They can live in the bin with our feeder insects, and keep things clean. :)
Pest was the wrong word to describe the bugs in a compost bin, the correct term would be detrivores. They aren't pests because they are using them and that is the whole purpose of those bins.
_Detrivores_ hmmm yes I must remember that yess ....Detrivores...
The whale bones with fractures in that v shape probably means it was hit by a large but relatively quick moving deep V haul ship......lots of whales die by being hit by ships when on their migratory path that happens to cross a shipping route
It's sad that ships strike whales so frequently. One would ask how they manage to get hit considering that there should be a lot of time for the whale to get out of the way. I know there's a good reason for it though. Either way, that would be one painful injury to get smacked by a container ship on the high seas - I'm almost amazed they don't get cut in half.
I honestly wish some of these were on display, or at least a cast. We have whale hearts- I feel like the skeleton would awe ppl, AND raise awareness. Like an exhibit on whale evolution and how dolphins, orcas, belugas, etc are whales too would be neat
This man has the best job in the world! I’m so jealous!
I am into whales 🐋 they are very intelligent and important to our ecosystem.
When the narrator said "Stored in a warehouse big enough to store a 747!" I kinda lol'd, thinking "That's it?"
Sure, it's a big plane, but it's a Smithsonian warehouse, you think they'd have a bigger area than that.
Super
John Ososky reminds me of Leslie Jordan God rest his soul.
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In highschool Ag class we composted some pigs. They were all composted in 30 days except the bones!!
I love the personality of the marine bioligist.
Which one is Eren??
I've seen about 10 people in the comments ask where the giants are...this has happened so frequently now that I'm starting to figure some of you are really serious and that's kind of concerning to me...
I like to imagine that in the future if we get instinct the alien archeologist will think this place as a cerimonial burial ground for fishes
I know a dog that will be happy to be there.😂
I’d pay thousands to see what they else they have stashed in the basement of the warehouse.
Personally I would love to get thousands to see what they have stashed there, and what I mean by that is that this looks like an awesome place to work!!
Instead of preserving living animals, here's these people preserving bones
The research done with specimen collections helps conservation research
Many times "extinction" comes before the actual disappearance of the last members of a species. Because a species is not about their individuals but its genetic diversity, reflected on its numbers. Once a species falls bellow a certain number that assures variety to face many (natural or artificial) challenges, that species it's already functionally defunct unless you artificially cater for its survival and maybe you are simply deceiving with big numbers but very poor genetic wealth. Theoretically, genetic diversity could (naturally) recover, but that takes way more time than the stability of human policies as to grant such really long (long) term success. Yes you could argue that maybe (perhaps) we could speed up the process in the future with some new discoveries on genetics, but right now we are trying to save some species that are already quite inbreed for their good.
How do they deodorize these skeletons? Or are they collected when the smell is gone?
By the time the cleaning process is done I imagine they'd be pretty odorless. Certainly soaking them in amonia ought to sterilise any remaining smelly bacteria/ dead tissue.
The smell some bones have comes from grease. Degreasing is an important step that ammonia helps with and can take weeks to months.
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Better not let my dog in there
Old male version of woo young woo
Interesting🤔😏. How dinosaur fossils were found. But wait, in a warehouse? Right. Billions of year ago, dinosaurs once ruled the earth and the seas, very cool. I'm looking at right here are some fossils that look like the flying dino tarodactaul, awesome. What's that other dinosaur that's gigantic, the brociosarous, that's my best favorite dinosaurs. I've said when I see them, don't mess with them. So learning about dino skulls are cool, just fascinating. 🦖🦕
brachiosaurus*
That's your favorite dinosaur?? Ankylosaur for me all the way. It's like the dino-equivelant of a tank.
Wheres are the bones of the 8 ft tall , double row toothed , six fingerd human skeletons of the ancient mound culture poeples of north america ?
Most likely destroyed by now or already researched and later destroyed along with the Bigfoot remains and the Dogmen remains as well as other cryptids.
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 and we learned nothing
Sitting in bill gates private museum
@@darinmullins4770 So he can splice it into his RNA 🤢🤮🙄😂🤣, and here I thought Michael Jackson had them.
@@cyankirkpatrick5194 he probably has jacksons bones also , like the skull and bones society at harvard university has geronimos skull .
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why? wsj stores them after all whaling activity still happening these days
Mmmmkay but now I need to know what happened to that poor damn whale
lmao 3rd. Very cool to see all those bones!
They ain’t hidden away 😂
What did these warehouses smell like?
Chick-fil-A my source is trust me bro
Old newspapers
that ar whale bones
one ques still remains..why these aren't for public display?
Space, maintenance and labour costs.
The size of the Smithsonians catalogues are like 100x bigger than what they have exhibited in the museum itself. There's just not enough space! But on top of that, the Smithsonian is like a fantastic catalog of life on earth. It has far greater research purposes than just displaying stuff to the public.
lol, bone
The Giants are very well hidden, unfortunately.
Yeah. I knew this was going to be a Disney story spin on why the Smithsonian has too much stuff to display everything and not actually why is the Smithsonian hiding giants skeletons and other bones and creatures fossils they don't want us to know about.
@@codemcloud6073 and what magical benefit would they have to hide something like that conspiracy carl? Somehow they convinced thousands of archaeologists, biologists, volunteers, museum curators, and others involved to all deny your magical giants🤣🤣
With only 30 left, it's already extinct.
That's not remotely enough for them to survive.
Sometimes it is. There are species who have come back from the brink with less individuals. However yes your fears are certainly founded. The species is on life-support and the heart monitor is not looking very hopeful :/
Giant skeleton where?
If one day the warehouse caught fire then whole specimens will loss forever
Oh gosh you're one of those people who think exclusively in destruction aren't you?
I mean, me too sometimes but I imagine that this warehouse would have invested in a pretty decent fire-proofing system if it's going to house such rare and expensive specimens.
Is a good thing that all that effort went whale
Where's the giants? They probably have so many cool cryptid fossils and skeletons. Mermaids ,Bigfoot, dog men, chupa cabra. I wonder if wendigos and skinwalkers bodies turn to dust or what? You know that guy has seen way cooler shit than that supermarket whales skull.
This kind of stuff is why I come to the TH-cam comments sections .. too funny 🤣🤣
@@Tacquito I've seen like 10 people ask where the giants are now, and I'm starting to believe they're serious and that is concerning to me.
😅Am I the only one wondering what it smells like during this whole process? 🤢🤮
This narrator voice is unbearable. Too much voice frying.....
Lets all keep secrets hidden away from public what a fun world it would be.. .
We all do! No one even knows about the dead body I keep in my base- I MEAN.. Ummm... the insect collection, yes no one knows about the collection of deceased bees that I keep yes. hmm
And how about the bones of giant humans??? Oh, that's right, you BURNED them!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
They're being paid to keep them out of the public eyes.
No, they’re making sure to keep it away from idiots like you who don’t seem to care these are bones of fascinating ancient animals such as whales which scientists are still studying.
Where are the giant human bones that they keep hidden from us (goblins, dwarves, or hobbits)? The orange haired giants. The dog people. The head in chest people.
The rare and prized human centipede people
They’ve also dumped thousands of giant bones into the ocean
who paid for all this???...i wondered......
That's a lot of chinese medicine
Our tax dollars literally going to waste
are you freaking joking me?? This is a brilliant use of US tax dollars. The cateloguing and research of all life on earth is a worthwhile endeavour with outcomes you cannot imagine the importance of. Our planet is dying because of us. It's our responsibility to understand it and save it- the collapse of ecosystems is not something that you want to scrimp on as it affects all of humanity.
@@vice.nor.virtue I like your sarcasm….oh you’re serious LoL.
@@UrR2KBA Dude if you wanna get mad then go talk to the $720bn military industrial complex. They don't even need donations to stay afloat. Sorry you're at the bottom of the Maslow Heirarchy of Needs Pyramid.
Knowledge is power. This is a much better use of taxpayer money than bailing out banks or giving the police tanks.
Other than keeping the creepy dude with the old bone fetish employed. The “information “ gleaned from this particular collection of bones will yield nothing of use to further our condition.
these skeltons are nothing compared to what they are hiding
died by accidental causes?. from plastics, tangled in fishing gear and struck by ships, humans are horrible
Show the giants they keep stealing
Basically the scientists waisted taxpayers money…for their own hobbies….they should display all of them to public to see and learn
The museum collections are there for scientist research, not for your fun, waste of taxpayer money would be displaying it for the public and do not reseach with the specimens, if you want fun go to the didactic collection
Humans are the worst animal
So ther is space for bones but still homeless people arnd living on streets 😏
The cateloguing and research of all life on earth is a worthwhile endeavour with outcomes you cannot imagine the importance of. Our planet is dying because of us. It's our responsibility to understand it and save it- the collapse of ecosystems is not something that you want to scrimp on as it affects all of humanity. If you want to go and rag on US spending go comment on your 720bn military budget- there is no way your defence industry needs _ALL_ of that money.
This museum no offense is a hoarde fest
It's a waste of government money
I have seen other video tours of their stored items
They hoarde way too much
And store too much
They should just load their items to other museuems and stop hoarding
Envy kills.
You are a waste too.
Its so they can control the perspective of actual history. Make no mistake. Thats why they arent showing you all of what they really have and make this video seem so cool and righteous. Distraction tactics my friend
@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 envy of what lol, Bones. I care about art
You are weird, bye troll
Let's see the giant human skeletons that they are hiding from us.. if you're not going to show this in the Smithsonian, the museum might as well be burnt down..
if it goes extinct it means it is not adapted to our current environment, just let it go, no need to waste money trying to preserve something
Except if you actually watched and paid attention. That whale died because of human waste. It had roples wrapped around its mouth long enough it scarred the Bone. It beached itself because it was dying of starvation because of that rope. Of it were not for humans leaving the rope there that whale likely would be still swimming in the ocean and having babies. Animals are going extinct at a rapid rate because of Humans.
You should write a book. What you said was really deep. We need more thinkers out there.
Funny how smithsonian lose all the giant human skeletons that line up with genesis 6.
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