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Unsuspecting scientist narrowly misses being blown away as whale corpse explodes in front of him

It was a dirty job, but Bjarni Mikkelsen, a marine biologist at the National Museum of the Faroe Islands, had to do it.

After two whales died this week near the Faroe Islands, the government wanted to use one of the skeletons in the National Museum. So Mikkelsen began the first step of cutting the animal’s gut open. But little did he expect that it would explode in his face.

“The animal was more than two days old when we took it so we knew there would be some pressure on the inside, but nothing like what happened,” he told the Daily Mail.

I’m ambivalent about this.

On the one hand: “Haha!”

On the other: “Oh dear God no”

LOL

(via zaelisxae)