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The collection includes: a North Atlantic right whale, a giant Lion's mane jellyfish model, a 1,500-US-gallon (5,700 L) aquarium containing live marine fish and corals, one female giant squid displayed in the center of the hall and a male displayed off to the side, an adult coelenterate, and a Basilosaurus. [81]
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
The giant squid nevertheless remains a rarely encountered animal, especially considering its wide distribution and large size, [60] with Richard Ellis writing that "each giant squid that washes up or is taken from the stomach of a sperm whale is still an occasion for a teuthological celebration".
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Clyde Roper during the 1999 giant squid expedition to New Zealand. Clyde F. E. Roper (born 1937) is a zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He has organised a number of expeditions to New Zealand to study giant squid, including in 1997 [1] and 1999. [2] He graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington ...
Photo shot through a polarizing filter of a Cranchiidae sp from the Operation Deep Scope Expedition 2004. This squid, about four-inches across, uses transparency to hide from potential predators.
Seattle, Washington: August 22, 1994: EXTINCT [5] in 2011 58: Orcas off the San Juan Islands: Seattle, Washington: August 22, 1994: EXTINCT [5] in 2011 59: Gray Whales off Oregon Coast: Newport, Oregon: August 29, 1994 60: Spyhopping Gray Whale: San Francisco, California: September 5, 1994: Across from Pier 39 61: Grays off the San Francisco ...
A humpback whale was spotted swimming with a severed tail off Washington. These sightings are now serving as reminders of the dangers of marine mammal entanglements and “ human carelessness ...