Painting the Model of Phoenix

A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix which today is on exhibit in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. More about the right whale can be found in our Tale of a Whale featured story.

A model marker applies paint to the life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix.
Chip Clark/Smithsonian Institution

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