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Dead whale in New Jersey had a fractured skull among numerous injuries, experts findLONG BEACH TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A post-mortem examination of a whale that washed ashore on New Jersey's Long Beach Island found that the animal had sustained numerous blunt force injuries ...
OSAKA--When a massive dead whale was found drifting in Osaka Bay, local authorities took the rare step of burying the carcass, rather than cremating it, to harvest the skeleton for display at a ...
Polychaete worms such as Vigtorniella flokati feed on the tissues of the dead whale, helping to reduce the carcass to bare bones. 'The animals accumulate in numbers around the whale,' says Adrian.
"Yes!" Narrator: This is a dead whale, which scientists recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean covered in all kinds of creatures from bone-eating worms to deep-sea octopuses.
The tissue and bone samples collected will help biologists ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Dead whale ...
NOAA is working with the museum on a request for an authorization under the Marine Mammal Protection Act that would allow the organization to collect and display the fin whale bones for ...
OSAKA--Ten days after the whale dubbed "Yodo-chan" appeared in Osaka Bay, its carcass was transported back to the waters where it came from and buried at sea. The dead whale was loaded on a barge ...
Uruguayan authorities reported Wednesday the discovery of a dead 15-meter whale on the River Plate beach of Colonia, believed to be the first such discovery in the past 100 years. The mammal ...
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