Hauling a rotting whale across state lines, John Ososky recalled wanting to move quickly in his Chevy Silverado, looking for gas stations that had the fewest customers.
“You know, you do get looks, and you do get comments,” said Ososky, 66, a marine mammals collections specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. “Once you have a whale like that, there’s not much I’m stopping for — it’s making a beeline to where it needs to go.”
