PATHUM THANI: The country’s oldest partially fossilised Bryde’s whale skeleton is expected to be returned to its home in Samut Sakhon within 12 months after the painstaking task of putting it back together is completed.
The Department of Mineral Resources says the traditional practice of returning the skeleton to its original place is being done in accordance with specific law.
The department and its partners — the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, the Department of Fine Arts and a team of university academics — have been gathering pieces of the 12.5-metre long skeleton, which is believed to date back 6,000 years, after finding them last month in tambon Amphang, Ban Phaeo district.
All 127 pieces have been taken to the department’s National Geological Museum in Pathum Thani for further analysis. The job is now 90% complete and it is regarded as the…
