A dead humpback whale washed up at Manhattan Beach in Half Moon Bay on Sunday, which is just south of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
The whale was first reported by beachgoers around 3 p.m., says the Marine Mammal Center.
A team of experts from the Center and partners at the California Academy of Sciences performed a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on the dead whale to determine its cause of death."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," said Dr. Pádraig Duignan, director of Pathology at The Marine Mammal Center in a news release.
The Marine Mammal Center said it has responded to nine additional dead whale sightings since the beginning of this year, including two humpback whales.In a statement, the Center said:
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