14-10-2016 00:32 via alaskapublic.org

Museum undertakes whale of a project

North America’s largest collection of marine mammal bones is about to get even bigger. The Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is getting a Humpback Whale skeleton.
UA Museum of the North (Photo courtesy of the University of Alaska)Museum of the North mammal curator Link Olson said the skeleton was salvaged from a humpback that beached near Kincaid Park in Anchorage this summer.
”To my knowledge, this is the first time a humpback whale has beached, so it present
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