MOUNT DESERT (AP) — The case of Maine’s missing scallop guts has been solved.
The tale unfolded Monday when a fisherman placed two buckets in the back of a car with University of Maine license plates at a convenience store. It was the wrong car and motorist drove away.
It turns out those weren’t just any scallop guts. Andy Mays of Southwest Harbor had been collecting scallops for six months for a project by the University of Maine’s marine research facility. He’d gutted the bivalves, isolated different organs and preserved them in formaldehyde.
The Bangor Daily News says the motorist, a UMaine professor, later noticed the buckets and later learned via social media they contained valuable research. She then posted online, “It is me. I have the scallop guts.”
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