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Dead Whale Washes up in Alameda on Easter Sun.

Dead gray whale washes ashore in Alameda, will be towed to Angel Island for necropsy

A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Alameda over the weekend will be towed to Angel Island to be examined by scientists, officials with The Marine Mammal Center said. The whale is believed to be an adult female gray whale that was previously sighted on Thursday at a different location along the Alameda’s shoreline,

NBC Bay Area · 4d

Dead gray whale washes ashore at Alameda beach

A dead gray whale that washed ashore in Alameda over the weekend will be towed to Angel Island to be examined by scientists, officials with The Marine Mammal Center said Monday.

Mercury News · 4d

Gray whale washes up dead on Alameda beach

(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) Scientists suspect that this gray whale is the same that was first spotted floating near the rock wall at the USS Hornet Museum on Thursday morning, but they have ...

Smithsonian Magazine9d

The Object at Hand

That is why the huge creature that now awes visitors in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History-the second blue whale to be displayed there in this century-is not a stuffed ...

3don MSN

Fifth whale found dead in waters of San Francisco Bay within a month

Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a ...

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A Newly Discovered Colossal Prehistoric Whale Might Be The Heaviest Animal Ever

Until now, the blue whale was widely considered to be the ... Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist at the Smithsonian ...

Humpback whale becomes first new exhibit at Maine State Museum

The Maine State Museum is preparing to reopen with a centerpiece whale skeleton exhibit, marking a major step in its ...

The Santa Barbara Independent9d

‘Unusually Complete’ Small Baleen Whale Fossils Excavated by Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

Sacramento Bee4d

Unusually complete whale fossil excavated from California beach

In April, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History announced that it had successfully excavated the fossilized remains of a mid-Miocene whale and had relocated the remains to the museum for ...

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