It was initially thought that the whale's body might be buried in a landfill, or incinerated if it presented a health hazard. After a campaign by "The Sun" newspaper to raise the £10,000 necessary for the recovery of the whale's skeleton, it was announced on 23 January that the bones of the mammal were to be given to the Natural History Museum with the intention that they be used for scientific research. Due to infrequent strandings of the species, it was the first complete northern bottlenose whale skeleton to enter the UK's national collection of marine mammal skeletons for more than 20 years. The skeleton was put on public display at the end of January 2007 at the Guardian and Observer Archive and Visitor Centre.