Researchers collect last whale bones off Anchorage shore

ANCHORAGE — University researchers in Alaska will soon have access to the only complete humpback whale skeleton in the state.
Anchorage television station KTVA reports researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks on Wednesday collected the remaining bones of a dead humpback that washed ashore last July at Kincaid Park in Anchorage.
Volunteers earlier made 45 trips up a 200-foot bluff with lighter bones, but a helicopter was used this week to ferry out the heavier bones.
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