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August 26, 2013 02:05 pm PDT
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Whale stranding and death in Marin County, CA gives marine biologists rareopportunity
"Twelve hours after it was first reported stranded alive on a beach just north of San Francisco, a 42-foot-long fin whale tumbled into its oceanside grave a large and sandy pit, quickly excavated near the back of the beach." A rare and recent fin whale stranding, in which the creature was still alive when its body reached shore, gave scientists the "extremely rare opportunity to perform an necropsy on a fresh whale carcass." [Wired Science]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/v25uej3PqmU/story01.htm
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