Your eyes are not deceiving you.
Glance up in the Steele Ocean Sciences Building and you'll see something that was definitely not there before. It's the 18-metre skeleton of a blue whale mounted to the ceiling the centrepiece of the Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity, which is projected to open later this year in the space.
Research Casting International (RCI), which specializes in mounting displays for museums and universities around the world, completed the installation over five days in late February. RCI transported the bones to Dal from the company's Trenton, Ontario facility, where they had been in storage since 2021.
