Gray Whale Skeleton Being Reassembled

November 2, 2006

(AP) -- The 165 bones of a California gray whale are slowing being reassembled for a new Kodiak museum set to open next year. Conservationist Stacy Studebaker, photographer Hank Pennington and expert bone restorer Lee Post of Homer were busy Tuesday working on the whale bones with volunteers.

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