Learning from Life and Death

Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore and WHOI guest student Colby Moore (from the College of the Atlantic) prepare to examine a white-sided dolphin that had stranded and died on a beach in Wellfleet, Mass., in January 2008. Every year, researchers from around the world come to the specialized facilities at WHOI to perform necropsies and other post-mortem studies of marine creatures.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)