Humpback whales

Researchers hope to perform a necropsy to better understand what might have caused the whale to beach itself.

During the first month of this year, there have already been seven of the whales beached from Maine to Florida. Crews used a crane to pull the animal from the water so it would not be washed back out to sea. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for the nation’s oceans and fisheries, said 19 humpback whales were stranded last year along the U.S.

The whale — the tenth to strand on an Atlantic beach in less than two months — will be hauled up into the dunes this morning, where it will be necropsied ...

“Overall, the sound sources used here are generally expected to be much lower in impact than seismic guns.” They also penetrate thousands of meters into the sea floor. “A dead whale on the beach looks fine, but the necropsy discovers broken bones and serious internal injuries,” Robert Kenney, an emeritus marine research scientist at the University of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay campus, said by email. The bones are generally not checked because ear tissue decomposes very quickly, and with such large whales, they are “buried fairly deep near the skull," Sarah Wilkin, the NOAA coordinator for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response, has said. Above 180 decibels is considered more severe. Marine Mammal Protection Act, anything louder than 160 decibels is harassment.

An adult male humpback whale washed up on Lido Beach Sunday night and was found dead by emergency service workers on Monday morning.

Marine biologists conducted the necropsy and will use the information gathered from the procedure to determine the humpback whale's cause of death. [According to WABC](https://abc7ny.com/whale-death-lido-beach-nassau-county-long-island/12750638/), one of the whales died due to a vessel strike, but the cause of death for many of the remaining whales is still unknown. [about the grim discovery](https://bronx.news12.com/officials-whale-washes-ashore-at-lido-beach), adding that this is the area's first whale beaching in four years.

Researchers have begun a necropsy on a 35-foot-long humpback whale to try and figure out why it washed up Monday on the shores of a Long Island beach town.

Clavin said the town hasn’t seen a beached whale in several years. Nassau County police said the whale was found at 6:30 a.m. [it washed up Monday](https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/dead-humpback-whale-washes-ashore-at-nassau-countys-lido-beach/) on the shores of a Long Island beach town.

LIDO BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — A 35-foot (11-meter) humpback whale washed ashore and later died on a New York beach, one of several cetaceans discovered over the ...

During the first month of this year, there have already been seven of the whales beached from Maine to Florida. Crews used a crane to pull the animal from the water so it would not be washed back out to sea. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for the nation’s oceans and fisheries, said 19 humpback whales were stranded last year along the U.S.

A 35-foot humpback whale washed ashore and later died on a New York beach, one of several cetaceans discovered over the past two months along the shores of ...

During the first month of this year, there have already been seven of the whales beached from Maine to Florida. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is responsible for the nation's oceans and fisheries, said 19 humpback whales were stranded last year along the U.S. Crews used a crane to pull the animal from the water so it would not be washed back out to sea.

Officials were still awaiting the results of additional tests on tissue and organ samples to determine if any additional factors played a role in the death ...

Luna is the 10th large whale to wash ashore in New York and New Jersey since Dec. Humpback whales usually migrate at this time of year to their breeding grounds in the waters around the West Indies, Robbins said. "The animal was found to be in good body condition and presented evidence that it had been actively eating," NOAA Fisheries said in its statement. Robbins said the center was "one of the first" to see Luna, having encountered the humpback whale off Massachusetts, but that in recent years "he tended to be a more regular visitor to the Bay of Fundy and the coast of northern Maine." Luna was part of the population of humpback whales that spends spring through fall feeding in the Gulf of Maine and the Bay of Fundy — the southernmost primary feeding ground in the North Atlantic, the center said in a statement Wednesday. In a statement provided to Newsday, NOAA Fisheries said while "a vessel strike is the likely cause of death," officials were still awaiting the results of additional tests on tissue and organ samples