Whale of a time at museum
A giant whale skeleton dismantled and put into storage for three years during a museum refurbishment has been put back together, bone by bone.
The 70ft (21m) finback arrived at Cambridge University's Zoology department 150 years ago, after washing up dead on a Sussex beach.
It was taken down from display when the Museum of Zoology closed in 2013 for a 拢4m makeover.
Re-assembling and re-hanging the whale took two people about four weeks.
The finback (Balaeonoptera physalus) - the second largest species after the blue whale - is thought to have weighed about 80 tonnes, the equivalent of eight double-decker buses, when it was alive.
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