Dead Whale Washes Ashore at Point Reyes National Seashore, and at Long Island + HL 360: WED DEC 27, 2017 10:19 AM
TOP NEWS … Whale washes ashore at Point Reyes National Seashore -- The Press Democrat Biologists from the Marine Mammal Center performed a necropsy Tuesday on a 30-foot juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore Sunday. Researchers were working Tuesday morning to determine the cause of death. Five whales washed ashore this year, according to the Marine Mammal Center, a nonprofit research and rescue organization spanning San Luis Obispo County to Mendocino County. Scientists find death of Point Reyes whale probably not caused by ship strike -- ktvu Fox 2 The Marine Mammal Center team found tissue bruising on the right side of the body near the head and neck but did not find broken bones or signs of blunt for trauma associated with a crash with a ship. Muscle and skin tissue samples will be analyzed, and a final report on the cause of death is expected in about two weeks. The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA and Kailua-Kona, HI reports it has responded to 27 s