'Sculptures of nature': Spain's beached whale skeletons on display

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FUERTEVENTURA, Spain (AFP) — Spanish biologists have come up with a technique to treat the skeletons of beached whales which wash up in the Canary Islands in order to put them on display as "sculptures of nature."

Over the past two years the non-governmental organisation Canaries Conservation has brought together a group of biologists to work on the project to display the skeletons of the sperm whales, the Spanish island chain being their most popular habitat after the Patagonia region of Argentina.

Manuel Carrillo, heading up the group of experts, says ultimately the full skeletons will be placed near the shoreline as a potent reminder of their fate.

"We want to carry out an exhaustive monitoring of the whales along the Canary Island's coastline but we also...