Dominion Post
A rare whale has been exhumed from its burial place near a Coromandel beach for removal to Te Papa in Wellington.
The 2.4-metre male melon-headed whale beached itself repeatedly in Mercury Bay, Coromandel, in January last year before it died on rocks at Brophy's Beach, Whitianga.
It was the first recorded sighting of a melon-headed whale in New Zealand waters, though Te Papa has a pre-1900s skull of this species. It is not known where the skull came from.
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