Dead whale washes ashore at Bay Area beach

A blue whale that washed ashore in the Bay Area had suffered from multiple skull fractures.|
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DALY CITY - A blue whale that washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area had suffered from multiple skull fractures.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/2eiK5sy ) that a team of scientists with the Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, Noyo Center, and University of California, Davis, said Thursday that the 65-foot male whale suffered blunt force trauma before washing ashore. They have not yet determined the cause of death.

The Marine Mammal Center received a report Wednesday of a whale carcass floating in the surf off Daly City's Thornton State Beach. It was the seventh blue whale carcass beached in the last 40 years along the Central and Northern California coastline.

Blue whales are the largest animals in the world. They can grow longer than the length of a basketball court and weigh more than 15 school buses.

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Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com

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