A two tonne whale’s head has been excavated from the ground after a 10 hour dig in Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula, as scientists hope to memorialise and learn from the dead mammal.
A team of scientists used specialist vacuum excavation equipment to painstakingly remove soil over the course of 10 hours. They had waited five years to excavate the skull, after a 60-foot female fin whale, the second largest marine animal on Earth, was given a burial after being found stranded on a beach in Parbean Cove.
