Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks were at Kincaid Beach in Anchorage to finish recovering the skeleton of the humpback whale that washed up there in July. The team, led by Mammals Collection Manager Aren Gunderson, removed half the whale by hand in September then came back the next month with a helicopter for the remaining large bones. The massive specimen will become part of the largest marine mammal collection in North America housed at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks.
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