AFRICA: An 18-foot carcass of a minke whale was washed ashore on a beach in Coney Island, New York on Monday afternoon.
According to local authorities, the dead animal was found on a beachfront near the Boardwalk at Ocean Parkway at around 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
A section of the beach was closed off for several hours to allow marine experts from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and the State Department of Environmental Conservation Police to study the body of the minke whale.
Kim Durham of the Riverhead Foundation performed a necropsy on the beached dead whale.
“We’re here because we want to determine the cause of mortality—if it was a natural mortality or did something like a ship strike it,” Durham said. “Was this animal eating, did it have signs of injury or illness? Or was it a healthy animal that was in the wrong place, wrong time.”
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