Oregon
2nd whale carcass washes ashore on Oregon coast, 100 yards north of first
SEASIDE Ore. (KPTV) – A second beached whale has washed ashore on the Oregon coast, roughly 100 yards north of a sperm whale that washed ashore at Fort Stevens State Park simply final week.
In keeping with the Seaside Aquarium, the whale is a child Grey whale, roughly 12 ft in size. The aquarium says the whale has been useless for a while earlier than washing ashore Wednesday.
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Not like the sperm whale discovered Saturday, the aquarium says there’s no indication the Grey whale was killed by a ship strike, though nothing can be confirmed till a necropsy is carried out.
Throughout this time of the yr, Grey whales are migrating south to their birthing and breeding grounds close to Baja, the aquarium says.
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