49-foot-long humpback whale washes up on SF Bay Area beach

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49-foot-long humpback whale washes up on SF Bay Area beach
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A dead 49-foot-long humpback whale washed up on Manhattan Beach in Half Moon Bay on Sunday. Experts believe the animal likely died after colliding with a ship.

A 49-foot-long humpback whale washed up on Manhattan Beach in Half Moon Bay on Sunday, the Marine Mammal Center said.A massive humpback whale washed up on Manhattan Beach in Half Moon Bay on Sunday, and experts believe the animal likely died after colliding with a ship.

Local scientists performed a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on the massive whale and determined it was a moderately decomposed female with ample fat and blubber reserved indicating that it wasn't malnourished. “This humpback whale had an extensive contusion over her right chest area, a fractured first cervical vertebra and its skull was dislocated from the spinal column,” Dr. Pádraig Duignan, director of Pathology at the Marine Mammal Center, said in a news release. “These findings, combined with overall excellent body condition, strongly implicates blunt force trauma associated with a ship strike as this whale’s cause of death.

Scientists put the whale's length at 49 feet. To get a sense of how big that is, imagine three SUVs in a row.

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