Dead Humpback Whale Likely Was Hit by a Ship
A 25-foot baby humpback whale washed ashore on Long Island after it apparently had been hit by a ship.
The whale surfaced Friday night at Robert Moses State Park on Fire Island. After an autopsy, marine biologists ruled that the whale had suffered bruising and internal hemorrhaging.
Julika Wocial, a marine biologist at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, said the humpback’s death was likely unrelated to the dozens of whale carcasses that surfaced on Massachusetts shores earlier this week.
Humpbacks are baleen whales, which typically do not strand themselves on beaches.
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