With their dolphin-like noses, beaked whales
are among the ocean’s most mysterious whale species, and they aren’t
usually found near Maine. Only four beaked whale sightings have been
documented in coastal waters in the past 20 years.
But to the surprise — and alarm — of ocean biologists, two have washed up on Maine shores — one last month in York, a dead 14-foot, 2,200-pound Blainville’s beaked whale, and the other in Phippsburg, where a 1,700-pound female Sowerby’s beaked whale died after being saved from a mudflat in Atkins Bay on Saturday, the Times Record reported.
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https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07/16/news/york/rare-beaked-whales-have-mysteriously-washed-ashore-in-york-and-phippsburg/
But to the surprise — and alarm — of ocean biologists, two have washed up on Maine shores — one last month in York, a dead 14-foot, 2,200-pound Blainville’s beaked whale, and the other in Phippsburg, where a 1,700-pound female Sowerby’s beaked whale died after being saved from a mudflat in Atkins Bay on Saturday, the Times Record reported.
see more:
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07/16/news/york/rare-beaked-whales-have-mysteriously-washed-ashore-in-york-and-phippsburg/
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