In life, Delilah roamed the cold, blue waters of the North Atlantic, queen of all she surveyed. In death, she has been no less majestic.
For 30 years, Delilah the right whale has held pride of place at the New Brunswick Museum’s exhibit centre in Saint John, suspended above the heads of marvelling spectators in Market Square.
Today, the whale is reduced to a pile of earthbound bones, each vertebra and lengthy rib bubble-wrapped as carefully as fine china. Her strikingly hand-like flippers remain intact but still unpacked, as is her golf-cart-size skull.
More than 100 precious pieces of Delilah are resting
