Kendrapada: The Odisha Forest Department has announced plans to preserve the skeleton of a 25-foot-long Bryde’s whale that washed ashore near the mouth of the Devi River last Saturday. It will be displayed at the Natural History Museum in Dangamal within Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha’s Kendrapada district. ADVERTISEMENTOfficials from the Forest Department confirmed that the whale was a Bryde’s whale, a species rarely spotted in Odisha’s waters. Once this process is complete, the skeleton will be carefully retrieved, cleaned, and preserved. “Noted wildlife biologist Siba Prasad Parida and his team examined the skeleton on Monday for the mounting work,” Bhitarkanika National Park DFO Varadaraj Gaonkar was quoted as saying.