The Húsavík Whale Museum received a true gem recently when a white beaked dolphin was added to the skeleton collection. This is the 12th skeleton which will be on display inside the museum and the first which is received since the arrival of the blue whale in 2015. Also, it's the last piece of the puzzle in the game of collecting the most regular whale species of Skjálfandi Bay. It was the museum's whale specialist Garðar Thröstur Einarsson who picked up the white beaked dolphin from the farm Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður. The bones will now be in a processing mode for about one year before they will be ready for display inside the museum. The Húsavík Whale Museum wants to thank the owners of Guðlaugsvík for the donation and the help when picking up the whale.

The white beaked dolphin stranded in Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður, North West Iceland

The whale museum in Húsavík received an even better treasure these days when a white-beaked dolphin joined the collection of the museum's skeletons. This is the twelfth skeleton that will honor the Whale Museum with its presence and the first to be added to the group since the sperm whale arrived in 2015. At the same time, this is the last species of whale that the museum was missing from those that are considered the most common in Skjálfandafló. It was Garðar Thröstur Einarsson, a cetacean, who set foot on land in order to get the nodule to his coastal location, which was in the town of Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður. Garðar Thråstur took the tuber on the spot and then drove it home, where the bones have entered the traditional process of decay. It is estimated that the bones will be ready for assembly in about a year. The whale museum would like to express its thanks to the residents of Guðlaugsvík for the gift and willingness to stay on the beach.

The tuber ran aground in Guðlaugsvík in Hrútafjörður